gave up waiting for root file on HP Proliant 8

1. offizieller Beitrag

    Hi,


    I used to run Openmediavault on my HP Proliant 8 without any issue.


    Recently, I updated the system and I tried to rename the RAID arrays (without success I am afraid). Apart from this, nothing unusual.


    After reboot, I lost access through web gui and tried to re-install but I get the following error message:


    "gave up waiting for root file system device"


    immediately followed by a busybox shell.


    Any idea how I could resolve this ?


    Thnak you in advance,
    Hervé

    is your OMV instaled on the raid array?


    have you tried to discconect all drives and just boot with the install disk/flash drive?


    i had this problem and it was a faulty flash drive(it was to slow), i installed in a different/new flash drive and i was good again.

    Thanks for the answer.


    I use a SSD drive, so I guess that it should be fine. However, I tried to boot without the HDD drives and I got the following message:


    mdadm: error opening /dev/md?*: no such file or directory


    followed by the same error message and shell.


    Is it possible that the issue comes from the RAID arrays I tried to remove ? How can I totally erase the RAID arrays from the configuration and make a clean install ? I tried to remove the arrays via the BIOS / HP tool at boot but yesterday when I reinstall i noticed that the system still considered that there were two RAIDs (while it should have displayed the 4 HDD drives).

    • Offizieller Beitrag
    Zitat von herve

    I tried to remove the arrays via the BIOS / HP tool at boot but yesterday when I reinstall i noticed that the system still considered that there were two RAIDs (while it should have displayed the 4 HDD drives).

    The above implies that the Raid is set up in the bios using the hardware raid, there is a setting in the bios you need to check first so that the system boots displaying 4 drives.


    Whilst you can set up the software raid within the gui any changes must be done in the command line using mdadm.

    • Offizieller Beitrag
    Zitat von herve

    Thanks. I did that using mdadm and it is now showing the 4 HDD drives at install.


    I however get mdadm: no arrays found in config file or automatically


    followed by the shell on boot.

    Ok, so your getting no gui? if that's the case try using omv-firstaid

    • Offizieller Beitrag
    Zitat von herve

    I finally re-install OMV 3 (I was installing OMV 4) and got no issue whatsoever.


    So problem is likely linked to OMV 4. I found other users having same issue: mdadm: no arrays found in config file or automatically

    Ok but the last comment in that thread explains how the error was overcome and therefore resolved.

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