Hi,
I have a Xserve G5 here with 2 drives (500GB) and a Fibre Channel
card. Whenever I try to install Leopard on this machine, first of all
it takes *forever* to boot up from the DVD to the Language selection
screen. Then, even if I don't create any RAID sets in Disk Utility and
just Erase the first drive, exit Disk Utility and try to install on
it, the installer fails just after the first few screens. It asks me
which drive to install it on, etc and then just when it starts the
installation, it quits.
At this point all the options in the menus are grayed out, except the
"Mac OSX Installer" menu with the "Quit Mac OSX installer" option,
which does help, and I have to force the machine to shutdown and
restart it.
I have also noticed that creating RAID sets with Disk Utility is
difficult. It would keep giving me errors like "Could not remount disk
disk1" and "Could not add a RAID disk to a RAID (-9976)". Sometimes if
I do it again it seems to work.
Suspecting that Disk Utility is very buggy, I tried doing everything
using diskutil, and had some more success with that using "eraseDisk,
partitionDisk, and createRAID". It has no problems erasing or
partitioning the disks, but creating the RAID set sometimes fails with
the same errors ("Could not remount", "Could not add a RAID disk to a
RAID"), etc. Unmounting and remount /Volumes and repeating the command
seems to have worked though.
Any thoughts? I'm sorry if this has been mentioned before, but I
haven't found any previous reference to the Xserve G5 and RAID/Disk
Utility problems. I apologize if it in fact has been discussed
previously.
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