7.1 Install With Areca Arc-1224

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I must be doing something horribly wrong and I hope somebody can help.

The Areca arc-1224 is not supported by the Areca driver included driver in 7.1 so I have to supply that when starting the install. Documentation provided by Areca and in the Red Hat install guide say the same thing, put the driver on an accessible medium then append inst.dd on the boot command, choose the driver and now the drives show up. So far so good.

There’s already a possible glitch, however. The USB memory stick is mounted as sda1, shifting the hard drives off by one letter.

So I break into the shell and partition the drives the way I want them, go back to the GUI installer and select the drives I want to use, assign mount points and formatting options. Done with that, configure the network and disable kdump.

Start the installation. Give it a root password.

Install completes, reboot. Only it won’t boot. Boot the DVD again, use troubleshooting with rescue option, again providing the new Areca driver. Tell it to mount my install under /mnt/sysimage. Look around a bit, there’s almost nothing I expect to see in /boot, there’s no kernel image. Do chroot /mnt/sysimage and query the RPM database, I see kernel-devel, kernel-headers and kernel-tools-libs. Hmmm, I’ll bet that’s a problem.

What the heck??

I actually did try copying the kernel and a few other required RPMs into a directory inside the chroot jail, install them and that worked fine, so I know those bits on the DVD are good.

Someone please tell me what I did to screw this thing up so badly.

Linus

11 thoughts on - 7.1 Install With Areca Arc-1224

  • Have you looked at the log files in /mnt/sysimage/root/?

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  • anaconda will try to delete an rpm file if it gets an IOError. Your media may be corrupt. Check that first.

  • anaconda will try to delete an rpm file if it gets an IOError. Your media may be corrupt. Check that first.

    —– Above quoted —

  • That’s not the same as checking the media for corruption. You may be able to read all of the files, but if the data is corrupt, rpm may throw and IOError.

    So, the next thing to do is check your media. The DVD should offer to do that first when you boot from it.

  • I’m not entirely sure, but at this point I’d suggest that you use a different media type. Maybe a USB drive.

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    you might try verifying that system you are getting error message on has a good cd/dvd drive.

    burn another dvd at at least 4 speeds slower.

    if runs ok, bad drive.

    if still fails, bad drive.

    another way you can check is to pull iso on system you are having problem with and burn dvd.

    if you get error, get a new drive.

  • you might try verifying that system you are getting error message on has a good cd/dvd drive.

    burn another dvd at at least 4 speeds slower.

    if runs ok, bad drive.

    if still fails, bad drive.

    another way you can check is to pull iso on system you are having problem with and burn dvd.

    if you get error, get a new drive.

    ——– Above quoted ——

  • . wise decision.

    optical drives do not fair well burning a lot of dvd’s.

    thru the years of dealing with cd/dvd burners, i have found the above trouble shooting checks to prove out bad drives due to the increased voltage needed for dvd burning shortens laser’s life.

    with low prices of optical drives today, it is almost worth wild to keep a usb optical drive around for when needed. ;-)

  • good burners will burn many hundreds of DVD-R/+R before they conk, I
    know, I’ve done just that, and worn out a few drives :)

    my experience is, find out what your drives maximum CLV speed is, and burn at that rather than let it spin up to the higher CAV speeds, and your burns will be more reliable and work in more readers. most later drives, thats 8X

    now, its been a few years since I’ve done a lot of disk burning, and my current drives are all a couple years old. my newer main PC has a Lite-On iHBS112 in it, which is a blu-ray burner, although I’ve never used that functionality (I have read a few dozen BD video disks).
    specs on it say it burns DVD+/-R 16X CAV and 8X max by Zone CLV, so I’d use it at 8X. 16X CAV reading is just fine.

    the other thing that kills optical disks is fine dust collecting on the lens assembly with age. This dust is nearly invisible unless you use a very high power magnifier and very bright oblique light, but very carefully cleaning said laser lens can resurrect a flakey drive (treat it like a fine camera lens, use a air puffer to blow off coarse dust, then a clean soft camel hair brush very gently to clean it). as the drives are so cheap, its hardly worth the effort of disassembly unless your time is worthless.