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DustinB3403

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

scottalanmiller

That looks like an HP SmartArray controller.

scottalanmiller

@DustinB3403 said:

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

DustinB3403

It is an HP Smart Array, in a DL360 G5

scottalanmiller

@DustinB3403 said:

It is an HP Smart Array, in a DL360 G5

Ah, okay. So that makes this a lot easier.

scottalanmiller

What do these commands say...

df -h

and

lvs

DustinB3403

df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 4.0G 1.8G 2.0G 47% /
none 932M 20K 932M 1% /dev/shm
/opt/xensource/packages/iso/XenCenter.iso
56M 56M 0 100% /var/xen/xc-install

And

lvs
  No volume groups found

scottalanmiller

You appear to be booted into the RAID array. Your root filesystem is located there.

scottalanmiller

You are running from the RAID, as @Dashrender hypothesized, not from the USB stick.

DustinB3403

hrm... that's very odd....

DustinB3403

I performed the identical installation as I have previously, and the OS was installed to the USB drive.

scottalanmiller

@DustinB3403 said:

hrm... that's very odd....

Who knows what the storage looks like now that a new partition has been created over top of the filesystem that was there before.

DustinB3403

But it does make sense now

DustinB3403

I'm not concerned with the data on the RAID.

I just want it corrected. Installed to the USB drive, and running from said USB. While having the local RAID 10 array for VM storage.

DustinB3403

I'll be back, going to reinstall!

DustinB3403

Now performing the install yet again, I see the key difference with the installer.

The initial screen (for what ever reason) was only installing to the local spinning rust array, rather than the 8GB Drive.

I found a 16GB and restarted the installation, at which point it listed 2 devices to chose from to install Xen too.

Wow I wished I noticed that before hand lol

DustinB3403

And we are back in action!

mlnews

Sweet!

Dashrender

Did you find out why you only saw that the RAID and not the USB for installation?

DustinB3403

I did, it appears (and I've seen it before but hadn't even thought about it) that unless you are performing a custom installation with a install directory of less than 16GB, the ISO will only list the local drives that meet this criteria and attempt to install to local disk rather than the USB.

Re-purposing a 32GB thumb drive (formatted to FAT32) and there were than 2 installation choices.

With anything less than 16GB it just by passes the "choice" of where to install to. Performing an Advance installation you can circumvent this imposed limit. But it was built in for log space etc.