[ale] Got wrong page error

[Alex Carver]

I just did tests on both drives in the array and they're both fine, no 
issues with either one of them.  So now I'm even more confused about the 
errors.

After installing on the array configured in RAID0, the bootloader is 
unable to find a partition with the UUID (the error is no such device 
/dev/disk/by-uuid/{UUID}.  When I installed under RAID 1, both drives 
had identical partitions (as they should) and they both had the same 
UUID and bootup proceeded normally.  I even unmirrored the drives and 
booted each one separately (after changing the UUID on one of them 
slightly) and had no issues there.  So there's something going on with 
RAID 0 (LSI SAS controller) that I'm not understanding.

On 8/29/2013 07:07, Alex Carver wrote:
> Having backups was the intent.  This array is supposed to hold the OS.
> Regular data is going on three external arrays later.  Right now I'm
> just trying to solve the problem I'm having with installing the OS at all.
>
> On 8/29/2013 01:02, JD wrote:
>> Danger Will Robinson!
>>
>> The only time that I've experienced massive data loss was due to this
>> configuration. I lost not only the data on the bad drive, but all the
>> data on
>> the 2 other drives in the stripe.  Files are written across all the
>> drives in
>> the RAID set, tiny parts at a time.
>>
>> * Have excellent backups OR
>> * Only use RAID0 storage for extremely temporary files.
>>
>>
>> On 08/29/2013 03:30 AM, Alex Carver wrote:
>>> I hope not but I'll check with a test install using RAID 1 instead.
>>> And yes
>>> it's RAID 0 but Dell just calls it striping across drives in the BIOS.
>>>
>>> On 8/28/2013 21:49, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>>> "striping across 2 drives" ?
>>>>
>>>> RAID 0?
>>>>
>>>> If so, you've got a bad drive.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Alex Carver
>>>> <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm installing Debian 7.1 clean on a Dell Precision 690 with
>>>>> on-board RAID
>>>>> (Xeon and using the amd64 install image).  The RAID is configured for
>>>>> striping only across two disks.  Installation from the CD runs
>>>>> along with
>>>>> no apparent issues (right now it's not connected to the network so
>>>>> I'm only
>>>>> performing a bare-bones install to test).  However, when it boots I
>>>>> get a
>>>>> "wrong page" error a few times and then the whole thing stops and
>>>>> drops me
>>>>> into busybox.  The messages include not being able to find the UUID
>>>>> of the
>>>>> array, no /dev, and a couple others like that.
>>>>>
>>>>> I can't seem to find anything online that can explain the issue.
>>>>> Ideas?
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