dmraid and anaconda.

[Heinz Mauelshagen]

On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 10:19:58AM +0100, Rob Hall wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 May 2005 17:35, Nando wrote:
> 
> > is there any news/updates on anaconda supporting dmraid?
> > Up to now i had a sil3112 in redhat 9 because there is a module that
> > make the raid system works.
> > But being very slow, and giving problems. Like the one that happened
> > now, that destroyed to mirrored drives makes me
> > try to update to a more up to date system like Fedora Core 3.
> >
> > So, if anyone has any way to do this i'd appreciate. I really didn't
> > want to have to install RH9 again.
> 
> It is possible to install FC3 on a DMRaid array but it's not for the faint 
> hearted. 
> 
> I have installed FC3 on a Promise TX2000 3 disk raid 0 using DMRaid. I used 
> the info/patches provided by Mark Wormgoor, 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-October/msg00728.html, 
> which added DMRaid support to Anaconda (although I had to further patch 
> Mark's code). This required rebuilding the stage2.img from the FC3 install 
> which I then installed on the target machine over a HTTP connection rather 
> than from CD (couldn't be bothered rebuilding the CD's). I also had to 
> install grub from FC-development as Grub in FC3 wouldn't work with my DMRaid 
> array.
> 
> You may be as well waiting for FC4 which I'm hoping will have native DMRaid 
> support. 
> 
> Perhaps Heinz could clarify the state of DMRaid in FC4 as FC4test2 certainly 
> didn't have native support (though I haven't tried the newly released test3 
> revision)? 

Anaconda support fro dmraid is being worked on.
No release date confimred yet :(

Heinz

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