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    • coliverC
      coliver
      last edited by

      Did you MD5 check the installation media? I had an issue in the past where one of the mirrors were giving out corrupt media... it looked like it worked but the installer didn't run through correctly, resulting in a not completely configured OS. Re-downloading the installer, from a different mirror and re-writing to the USB solved it.

      Recently with Linux Mint I had a slower thumb drive doing the installation. That also resulted in some issues. Moving to a faster drive corrected the installation problems I was having.

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      • DustinB3403D
        DustinB3403
        last edited by DustinB3403

        I haven't performed an MD5 check of the installation USB, as it is the same device I initially used when I first setup the server.

        I could certainly redownload, MD5 the files, and rebuild the installation media.

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        • coliverC
          coliver @DustinB3403
          last edited by

          @DustinB3403 said:

          I haven't performed an MD5 check of the installation USB, as it is the same device I initially used when I first setup the server.

          I could certainly redownload, MD5 the files, and rebuild the installation media.

          Worth a shot. Interesting that it worked before but not now... although USB drives have been known to corrupt data.

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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403
            last edited by

            I've just downloaded the ISO from Xen's site, and did an MD5 check. Will build installation media and test tonight.

            I'll also check to see if there is an available SATA port on the server.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
              last edited by

              Maybe get that cryptic message before you do anything else. Maybe we can solve the issue with the USB stick that isn't working right now.

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              • DashrenderD
                Dashrender
                last edited by

                I was wondering if the original USB stick might have just gone bad - but that wouldn't explain a bad password prompt, other than bad install as Coliver said.

                Are you sure you're reinstalls aren't writting to the RAID instead of the USB drive?

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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403
                  last edited by

                  I'll collect all of the information tonight before proceeding with yet another install.

                  and @Dashrender I'm positive it's not installing the to RAID, but to the USB drive, but thanks for checking.

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                  • DustinB3403D
                    DustinB3403
                    last edited by

                    Well something happened to the USB drive that was throwing the error.

                    At power up the system couldn't even find the drive to boot from.

                    I've reformatted the usb disk, and am installing to yet another one. I'll keep you all informed.

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                    • DustinB3403D
                      DustinB3403
                      last edited by

                      Format to FAT32 and install seems to have corrected the issue.

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                      • DustinB3403D
                        DustinB3403
                        last edited by

                        OK so it would appear, that the RAID is orphaned from the Host OS, which makes perfect sense.

                        How can I go about deleting the orphaned storage, or just formatting the entire raid from within Xen?

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
                          last edited by

                          @DustinB3403 said:

                          OK so it would appear, that the RAID is orphaned from the Host OS, which makes perfect sense.

                          How can I go about deleting the orphaned storage, or just formatting the entire raid from within Xen?

                          You should be able to attach it again.

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                          • DustinB3403D
                            DustinB3403
                            last edited by

                            Any recommendations as to how, reading everything from online is not only vague, but often misleading

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller
                              last edited by

                              What does...

                              cat /proc/mdstat
                              

                              tell you?

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                              • DustinB3403D
                                DustinB3403
                                last edited by DustinB3403

                                When I try to recreate the filesystem using

                                pvcreate /dev/cciss/c0d0p1
                                 Can't open /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 exclusively.  Mounted filesystem?
                                

                                That is what I receive.

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                                • DustinB3403D
                                  DustinB3403
                                  last edited by

                                  Attempting to perform the below:

                                  # xe sr-create content-type=user type=ext device-config:device=/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 shared=false name-label="Local Storage"
                                  The SR operation cannot be performed because a device underlying the SR is in use by the host.
                                  
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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
                                    last edited by

                                    @DustinB3403 said:

                                    When I try to recreate the filesystem using

                                    pvcreate /dev/cciss/c0d0p1
                                     Can't open /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 exclusively.  Mounted filesystem?
                                    

                                    That is what I receive.

                                    Wait, do you have hardware RAID or software RAID?

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                                    • DustinB3403D
                                      DustinB3403
                                      last edited by

                                      Performing a fdisk -l results in:

                                      # fdisk -l
                                      
                                      WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/cciss/c0d0'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
                                      
                                      
                                      Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 440.3 GB, 440346238976 bytes
                                      256 heads, 63 sectors/track, 53326 cylinders
                                      Units = cylinders of 16128 * 512 = 8257536 bytes
                                      
                                        Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
                                      /dev/cciss/c0d0p1   *           1       53327   430025623+  ee  EFI GPT
                                      
                                      Disk /dev/sda: 8074 MB, 8074035200 bytes
                                      2 heads, 63 sectors/track, 125155 cylinders
                                      Units = cylinders of 126 * 512 = 64512 bytes
                                      
                                      Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
                                      /dev/sda1   *           1      125156     7884768    b  W95 FAT32
                                      
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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller
                                        last edited by

                                        That looks like an HP SmartArray controller.

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
                                          last edited by

                                          @DustinB3403 said:

                                          You're running a lot of commands but not answering any questions 😉

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                                          • DustinB3403D
                                            DustinB3403
                                            last edited by

                                            It is an HP Smart Array, in a DL360 G5

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