From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chandra Seetharaman Subject: Re: SLES installation on dual controller subsystem Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:10:54 -0800 Message-ID: <1202177454.13537.22.camel@linuxchandra> References: <110b17190802041558y6b30e000x5a3e530f4c717d4e@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: sekharan@us.ibm.com, device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <110b17190802041558y6b30e000x5a3e530f4c717d4e@mail.gmail.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: device-mapper development List-Id: dm-devel.ids On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 15:58 -0800, Pradipmaya Maharana wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to install SLES 10.1 on my dual controller subsystem. The > subsystem is ALUA aware and hence shows me 2 LUNs for one while trying > to install SLES on it. > > If my LUN's preferred controller is 1 then everything goes fine, but > if the preferred controller of the LUN I am installing OS on is 2, > then installation goes fine but the boot fails. > > It throws some errors like root (hd1,1) could not found. When I modify > this to too(hd0,1) it boots fine. > > What am I missing here? >From what you explain, looks like the kernel doesn't boot at all. You are getting error from your BIOS/firmware. Your BIOS/firmware may not be multipath aware. > > Regards, > Pradipmaya. > > -- > dm-devel mailing list > dm-devel@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Chandra Seetharaman | Be careful what you choose.... - sekharan@us.ibm.com | .......you may get it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------