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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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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
                                    last edited by

                                    @DustinB3403 said:

                                    It is an HP Smart Array, in a DL360 G5

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

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller
                                      last edited by

                                      What do these commands say...

                                      df -h
                                      

                                      and

                                      lvs
                                      
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                                      • DustinB3403D
                                        DustinB3403
                                        last edited by

                                        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
                                        
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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller
                                          last edited by

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

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller
                                            last edited by

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

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