Home Lab - Odd Issue
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@DustinB3403 said:
You're running a lot of commands but not answering any questions
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It is an HP Smart Array, in a DL360 G5
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@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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What do these commands say...
df -hand
lvs -
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-installAnd
lvs No volume groups found -
You appear to be booted into the RAID array. Your root filesystem is located there.
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You are running from the RAID, as @Dashrender hypothesized, not from the USB stick.
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hrm... that's very odd....
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I performed the identical installation as I have previously, and the OS was installed to the USB drive.
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@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.
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But it does make sense now
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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.
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I'll be back, going to reinstall!
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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
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And we are back in action!
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Sweet!
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Did you find out why you only saw that the RAID and not the USB for installation?
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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.
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What USB drive did you use? I tried installing XenServer on a USB and when I went to boot it up, it seemed like it was going to take about 4 years. So I just installed it locally again.
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The exact can be found here that I used to reinstall too.
