Thursday, November 6, 2008

Redhat 4 update 5 and abv only has PERC 5i drivers on CD

Problem:
If your Dell 2950/6850 servers using PERCi RAID controller has crashed and you are trying to boot it in rescue mode to run fsck or repair the volume group.

And Linux rescue mode says: You don't have any Linux partitions.

Solution:
Redhat 4 update 5 and above only has the PERC drivers. So, you are using the wrong disk to boot the system and that’s the reason not able to see the file system/ volume group from PERCi. Make sure you boot with redhat 4 update 5 and above CD to see the file system on these boxes.

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