After several reboots, on ProLiant ML350p Gen8 Servers the root files system is corrupt beyond any repair and the machine must be setup again.

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Issue

  • After several reboots, onProLiant ML350p Gen8 Servers the root files system is corrupt beyond any repair and the machine must be setup again.
    The hard disk configuration is as follows:
    • Four disks (1 TB each) in a RAID 5 configuration (2+1 active, 1 spare disk)
    • One SSD drive (100 GB) configured as cache device in the server BIOS
    • Upon setup, the Red Hat server sees (as expected) one drive /dev/sda of 2 TB
    • Setups using the RAID configuration (HP Smart Array P420i)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • ProLiant ML350p Gen8 Servers
    • SSD drive configured as cache device in the server BIOS on Smart Array controller

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