[powerstation-owners] troubleshooting non-booting powerstation

[Jarod Wilson]

Adrian Reber wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 05:04:29PM -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> Remaining things I need to figure out:
>>
>> 1) how to set auto-boot to true
> 
> the nvsetenv command you wrote about does not help?
> You can do "setenv auto-boot? true" on the firmware prompt.
> With "printenv" you can verify if it is set and if it is also set after
> a reboot.

D'oh. 'nvsetenv auto-boot?=true' didn't take, but 'nvsetenv auto-boot? 
true' did.

>> 2) how to configure a RAID array
> 
> That is tricky. The only way I have done that is to boot a ramdisk with
> the necessary IPR utils and then I was able to create it. After you have
> created it you need to reinstall again. The Linux tool is the only way
> to create the RAID array.

I had a suspicion that might be the answer. That's slightly 
user-unfriendly... Oh well. I'll stick with software RAID for the moment 
then.

Thanks much!

--jarod