[rodney]

Disaster.

On rebooting the machine it goes to the login screen but will not log in with any username/password combination, e.g. as root, user etc.

During the rebooting the technician reports that the startup icon swaps between a document with a question mark and a happy face, then after doing this for a little bit, continues booting as per normal until it gets to the login screen.

Suggestions or comments on how to proceed from here would be greatly appreciated.

~ Rodney

[rodney]

I’ve inserted the 3rd drive.

Interesting side note – the Xserve started beeping continuously which is caused by megaraid, you can stop it from the command line.

Tried creating a one member RAID1 set by issuing command:

megaraid -create R1 -drive 2 -stripesize 64

MEGARAID CLI version 1.0.12

Insufficient Drives 1 for RAID1
INITIALIZATION started on LD 2
Configuration Creation Complete Successfully

oceanserve:~ root# megaraid -showconfig
MEGARAID CLI version 1.0.12
Logical Drive Found = 3
Logical Drive RAID Level StripeSize(KB) Size(MB) Status
————- ———- ————– ——– ——
0 1 64 8000 OPTIMAL
1 1 64 70479 OPTIMAL
2 1 64 476885 OPTIMAL

Logged in via VNC. Disk Tools shows a new disk, but, it thinks it is a 2Tb disk.

Next I did something which perhaps wasn’t so smart…

oceanserve:~ root# megaraid -chkcon 2 -start

MEGARAID CLI version 1.0.12
Check Consistency started on LD 2
oceanserve:~ root# megaraid -chkcon 2 -status

MEGARAID CLI version 1.0.12

After about 10 minutes it returned me to command prompt.

oceanserve:~ root# megaraid -showconfig

MEGARAID CLI version 1.0.12
No MegaRAID Adapter Available
oceanserve:~ root# megaraid -showconfig

MEGARAID CLI version 1.0.12
No MegaRAID Adapter Available

Hmmmm! No other option but to perform a hard shutdown, remove the new drive and restart… came back up OK.

I’m leaning towards just plugging it into the SATA connectors at this point.

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