[ubuntu-za] Failed RAID boot

[Charl Wentzel]

On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 10:28 +0200, Hilton Gibson wrote:
> I am not sure how your blade works.
> But I would put a small boot hard drive in there just to get it going.
> During kernel upgrades the boot drive would be updated.
> So a 3GB boot drive should be more than enough and as you say, you can
> "dd" it to another drive of similar size for disaster recovery every
> time the kernel is upgraded.

Thanks Hilton 
I'm not entirely comfortable with this option, but will use it if it is
the only way to get it to work. What bugs me is that I have done RAID
like this so many times and this is the first time I had this type of
problem.

> Or you can send us a link to the blade product page so that we can
> investigate more options.

These are the links I think is important:

> > > > Important Specs:
> > > > - Motherboard: 
> > > >   SR1600URHSR - INTEL 1U URBANA PLATFORM SR1600URHS (REFRESHED) 
Link: http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=48661 

> > > > - Backplane: 
> > > >   ASR1500SASBP - SR1500 ACC SAS BACKPLANE 
Link: http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=51212 

> > > > - Processor:
> > > >   1 x BX80602E5506 - INTEL XEON 5506 - 2.13GHz 

> > > > - RAM:
> > > >   3 x TS256MLK72V1U - TRANSCEND 2GB DDR3 1066 ECC DIMM 7-7-7 

> > > > - Hard drives:
> > > >   2 x ST3500418AS - SEAGATE 500GB SATA 7200RPM 16MB CACHE 
Link:
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=c501895c8ccce110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD