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    • JaredBuschJ
      JaredBusch @DustinB3403
      last edited by

      @DustinB3403 said:

      That's exactly why I'm confused, it shouldn't have anything to do with the OS. I should be able to reinstall the OS to the external USB and not deal with the RAID in the least.

      You have already done the basics, so next, don't use USB. Is there an open, non-RAID, SATA port inside? Drop in a random platter of spinning rust and install to that and see what happens.

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      • DustinB3403D
        DustinB3403
        last edited by

        I'd rather not add another drive to the mix. I might just create an 8GB partition on the RAID 10, and install the OS to that.

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        • JaredBuschJ
          JaredBusch @DustinB3403
          last edited by

          @DustinB3403 said:

          I'd rather not add another drive to the mix. I might just create an 8GB partition on the RAID 10, and install the OS to that.

          Why? You don't want to be doing that long term anyway right?

          So drop in a drive, boot it up and see if it works. If it does, you have narrowed it down to something with the USB controller or something like that.

          Then you can make a decision on how to move forward more long term.

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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403
            last edited by

            Well it's a DL360 G5, with all bays populated.

            I could easily open the case, and slap a drive in (assuming there's an available sata port) and test.

            I'm just vexxed that only after moving the server, did this issue appear.

            Using a USB Keyboard (on all 3 ports) as I figured maybe it's the USB port, and different ports for the USB OS Drive and there is still a present issue.

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            • JaredBuschJ
              JaredBusch @DustinB3403
              last edited by

              @DustinB3403 said:

              I'm just vexxed that only after moving the server, did this issue appear.

              No, the issue appeared after shutting down and rebooting. When was the last time you did that?

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              • DustinB3403D
                DustinB3403
                last edited by DustinB3403

                The server was completely stable from the day I set it up.

                I had updated it so it was current, and restarted several times in between. Never was the system shutdown, only restarted for system updates.

                Edit: It was only shutdown to move the server.

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                • coliverC
                  coliver
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                  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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