Gluster users - Jan 2010 - Storage Platform boot hangs on udev

Hi all
I'm trying a test install of the Gluster Storage Platform 3.0 on a new
server (Intel S5520UR with Areca RAID);
After what appears to be a succesful installation (tried both the USB and cd
release), the box is rebooted, and then
just hangs showing a black screen.

After removing the 'rhgb quiet' kernel options from grub (having booted
from livecd), the boot process appears to get
stuck at 'Starting udev'. Changing log level in udev.conf to debug or
info does not print out any additional info and
nothing seems to get syslogged.
As suggested by google results on similar problems on FC11 and others, I've
tried booting with different grub
kernel options (like noacpi, nousb, etc) to no avail. The boot process seems to
hang forever and does not timeout.
Also tried to boot with the 2.6.29 kernel that's included, with more or less
the same result; After the 'Starting udev'
line, it does print out some more info about found usb devices (keyboard,
mouse), but after that just hangs like with
the default 2.6.30.

All suggestions greatly appreciated.

cheers
Wim

Hi Wim,

    We never tested with Areca RAID Card, i have recently sent a patch which

    adds support for the Areca Card. 3.0.1 will be released on Feb 1st week
    which should include this update.

Regards
--
Harshavardhana
Gluster - http://www.gluster.com


On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:57 PM, <Wim.Gillis at ugent.be> wrote:
> Hi all
> I'm trying a test install of the Gluster Storage Platform 3.0 on a new
> server (Intel S5520UR with Areca RAID);
> After what appears to be a succesful installation (tried both the USB and
> cd release), the box is rebooted, and then
> just hangs showing a black screen.
>
> After removing the 'rhgb quiet' kernel options from grub (having
booted
> from livecd), the boot process appears to get
> stuck at 'Starting udev'. Changing log level in udev.conf to debug
or info
> does not print out any additional info and
> nothing seems to get syslogged.
> As suggested by google results on similar problems on FC11 and others,
I've
> tried booting with different grub
> kernel options (like noacpi, nousb, etc) to no avail. The boot process
> seems to hang forever and does not timeout.
> Also tried to boot with the 2.6.29 kernel that's included, with more or
> less the same result; After the 'Starting udev'
> line, it does print out some more info about found usb devices (keyboard,
> mouse), but after that just hangs like with
> the default 2.6.30.
>
> All suggestions greatly appreciated.
>
> cheers
> Wim
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