[Rocks-Discuss] Partitioning problem during frontend installation & crash
Erik Bitzek
we are trying to install Rocks 5.0 on our cluster.
During the partitioning we get following error messages:
"Could not allocate requested partitions:
Partitioning failed: Unsatisfied partition request
New Part Request -- mountpoint: None uniqueID: 5
type: physical Volume (LVM) format: 1 badblocks: None
device: None drive:[sda] primary: None
size: 0 grow: 1 maxsize: None
start: None end None migrate: None fstable: None
origfstype: None
bytesPernode: 4096 options None"
and then
"The following errors occurred with your partitioning:
You have not defined a root partition (/), which is required for
installation of Rocks to continue.
This can happen if there is not enough space on your hard drives for the
installation.
Press 'OK' to choose a different partitioning option"
and then the installation crashes with an unhandled exception.
The disc we want to partition is a freshly build hardware RAID1.
We also have a second raidset with level 6, but no internal CD-rom or
floppy.
Both, manual and auto partitioning options during installation crash.
Formating & partitioning /dev/sda from a rescue shell and then
re-starting the installation also doesn't work.
We are currently booting from a USB-CD/DVD drive or USB-stick and then
installing the images from the Rocks webserver as the installer is not
able to find the ks.cfg on the CD/DVD/USBstick.
(we tried both, CD&DVD installation. Installing other computers with the
same media worked).
I attached the error log.
Any help is highly welcome!
Thanks,
Erik
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Erik Bitzek
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Pennsylvania, 211 LRSM, 3231 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6272, USA
Phone: (+1) 215-573-8440, Fax: (+1) 215-573-2128
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Mason J. Katz
know, likely there is a driver missing from the older Rocks 5.0
release. What hardware is this?
mason katz
Philip Papadopoulos
If you tell Rocks to do manual partitioning, can you see the RAID sets that
were created?
Are there options in the RAID BIOS to have your volumes presented in
different geometries?
If you break the RAID and run as a JBOD (just a bunch of disks). Can you see
the drives and then install.
-P
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Erik Bitzek <bit...@seas.upenn.edu> wrote:
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Philip Papadopoulos, PhD
University of California, San Diego
858-822-3628 (Ofc)
619-331-2990 (Fax)
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Philip Papadopoulos
>
> Hi Philip!
>
> If you tell Rocks to do manual partitioning, can you see the RAID sets
>> that
>> were created?
>>
>
> no, choosing the manual partitioning option also leads to a crash without
> providing further information.
>
>
> Are there options in the RAID BIOS to have your volumes presented in
>> different geometries?
>>
>
> RAID bios means the raid controller set-up utility at bootup?
> we there just re-created the arrays, but we can try to see what other
> options there are.
On my Dell Workstation that is used for development, picking one emulation
of this disk in BIOS meant that I Could not install, while picking a
different emulation meant that it could (I don't recall the exact phrasing
in BIOS, and I don't have that machine in front of me).
>
>
> If you break the RAID and run as a JBOD (just a bunch of disks). Can you
>> see
>> the drives and then install.
>>
>
> i tried to break up the system RAID1 and just had 1 volume=disc only.
> upon manual and autopartition the system rebooted with an error message on
> the shell (couldn't find /install/ ?) (no GUI or so before rebooting)
Have you double checked your media? Perhaps re-burn at a slower speed.
>
>
> we also tried to install fedora9 which could successfully partition
> /dev/hda
RHEL and fedora are only mildly related when it comes to these sorts of
issues.
>
>
> thanks!!!
>
> erik
>
> (please include bit...@seas.upenn.edu in the reply to all)
Zheng Li
Hi Philip!
> If you tell Rocks to do manual partitioning, can you see the RAID sets that
> were created?
no, choosing the manual partitioning option also leads to a crash
without providing further information.
> Are there options in the RAID BIOS to have your volumes presented in
> different geometries?
RAID bios means the raid controller set-up utility at bootup?
we there just re-created the arrays, but we can try to see what other
options there are.
> If you break the RAID and run as a JBOD (just a bunch of disks). Can you see
> the drives and then install.
i tried to break up the system RAID1 and just had 1 volume=disc only.
upon manual and autopartition the system rebooted with an error
message on the shell (couldn't find /install/ ?) (no GUI or so before
rebooting)
we also tried to install fedora9 which could successfully partition /dev/hda
thanks!!!
erik
(please include bit...@seas.upenn.edu in the reply to all)
Erik Bitzek
thanks a lot for your help & suggestions!
we tried a couple of new things today, however with no success:
whenever it came to the point after choosing manual partitioning the
installer crashed as usual (see attached error log).
Also we still can not run the kickstart file from the external USB
CD/DVD drive (see previous mails for our installation procedure).
booting is possible, and installing with the same media on a pc works
fine, and we tried various media, so it doesn't seem to be a problem
with the cds/dvds.
We also tried ROCKS 4.3, but we the suggested USB-driver for the CDROM
didn't work.
The rest of todays attempts were performed using ROCKS 5.1.
We changed some options in the BIOS
in particular the ATA/IDE Configuration from Enhanced to compatible
and then configured SATA as SATA only
(for a list of related BIOS options see below)
We also changed the following in the RAID-BIOS:
- enabled Array-based BBS Support
- enabled DVD/CD-ROM Boot Support
- enabled Removable Media Devices Boot Support
(for a list of all RAID-BIOS options see below)
then we we broke the RAID1 into two separate volumes, volume 1 dedicated
as boot disc. we kept however the 7TB RAID6 (+spare).
The same error occurred. in the shell the 2 HDs can be seen with fdisk
as sda & sdc, the RAID6 is sdb (which showed up in the errormessage when
we chose manual partitioning). sdb could be successfully mounted.
Any suggestions what to do? We are a little reluctant to break the large
RAID6, but we start getting desperate, so maybe we do this?
Thanks a lot for your help!!!
erik
List of RAID-BIOS options (Adaptec 3805)
-----------------------------------------
- Drives write cache
- Runtime Bios
- Automatic failover
- Array Background Consistency check
- Array-based BBS Support
- SATA Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
- Physical drives display during POST
- DVD/CD-ROM Boot Support
- Removable Media Devices Boot Support
- Alarm Control
- PHY rate
- CRC checking
- SAS Address
(partial) List of BIOS option (Intel 5000P / ESB2 chipset)
-----------------------------------------
IDE Configuration:
ATA/IDE Configuration
Configure SATAT as
Primary IDE Maser, Slave
Third IDE Maser, Slave
forth IDE Maser, Slave
Hard Disk write protect
IDE detect time out
USB Configuration:
Legacy USB support
usb .0 controller mode
BIOS EHCI hand-off
USB mass storage device configuration
the hardware:
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head node is a Penguin computing relion 2612
with 2 xeon E5450 quad core processors, 8 GB ram
Intel 5000P / ESB2 chipset
see also
http://www.penguincomputing.com/products/linux/server/configurator/storage/intel/relion2612
it has a adaptec RAID 3805 controller and we have 1 raid1 array (2*250GB
HDs) dedicated for the system and 1 RAID6 (9+1 TB SATA) (/home)
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Erik Bitzek
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Pennsylvania, 211 LRSM, 3231 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6272, USA
Phone: (+1) 215-573-8440, Fax: (+1) 215-573-2128
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