Installing new Linux

[Robert Mortimer]

First I was not aware that DMRAID was RAID 5 capable

The suse installer can read the Meta Data from your SATA raid to see how it
should be configured. In FC this information is used to set up device mapper
raid (unless raid 5 is called for and then you have to fall back to normal
Linux raid). The last time I tried SUSe YAST did not attempt to install RAID
based on meta data, it did however fire out a warning that it was unsure of
what may already be on the disks.

My advice - Skip the error and use suse setup tools to create the RAID you
want. This may well be normal Linux software raid.

Robert

>
> Also, I've been messing about with Linux Software RAID, but LILO won't
> boot my system (as root is /dev/md0).
>
> I have done this, the trick is:
>
> # Allow booting from raid1.
> raid-extra-boot="/dev/sda,/dev/sdb"
>
> # Also..
> boot=/dev/md1
> root=/dev/md2
>
> Then when you run LILO:
>
> # lilo
> Added 2.6.17-2
> Added 2.6.17-3
> Added 2.6.17-4
> Added 2.6.17-5
> Added 2.6.17-6 *
> The boot record of  /dev/md1  has been updated.
> The boot record of  /dev/sda  has been updated.
> The boot record of  /dev/sdb  has been updated.
>
>
>
> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Rory Vieira wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > System Info:
> > Asus A8N-VM CSM
> > AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
> > 2 * Kingston 1Gb PC3200 ECC
> > 3 * Seagate 320Gb SATA-2
> > Adaptec 2904 PCI + HP SureStore DAT24
> >
> > Issue:
> > I would like to install SuSE 10.1 on the NVRAID environment with RAID-5.
> > However, during setup I get the message that my disks are part
> of software raid etc.
> >
> > Question:
> > How do I go about and install Linux?
> > Obviously I need a running system to actually use dmraid, so
> I'm unsure where to go from here.
> > There's no OS on the system at this point.
> > Also, I've been messing about with Linux Software RAID, but
> LILO won't boot my system (as root is /dev/md0).
> > I'm currently using the BootDVD to boot my system (ouch)...
> >
> > Hope someone can give me some guidelines to continue :)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Rory
> >
> >
> >
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