Software RAID setup at install...

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Wed Mar 24 17:38:33 UTC 2004


Mike Cisar wrote:

>Have just attempted to do a clean install of FC1 and set up software RAID 1
>during the install process.  I have 2x 120Gig IDE drives which I want to
>RAID1 and then split into 3 partitions (/, /boot and swap).  I want /boot to
>be the first partition (if it's not the first partition it ends up getting
>the error "system may not be bootable, blah, blah").  In a non-raid
>configuration this is not a problem, if I flat as EXT3 it seems to recognize
>that /boot should be "first" and always shuffles it to the first partition
>(if I don't specify the partition as /boot it still seems to shuffle it off
>sometimes to a higher partition, though not always).  However, if I go and
>try to select SOFTWARE RAID as the partition type, the small partition which
>would be boot once I set up the raid ends up getting pushed up to the 2nd or
>3rd partition which then spits up the error message again.  
>
>So far the only solution I've found is to run the installer, partition the
>1st drive, cancel the install once partition table has been written, start
>the install again, partition the 2nd drive, cancel again and then start the
>install a 3rd time at which point I can change the existing partition types
>to Software RAID, raid the drives and complete the install.
>
>There must be an easier way, help :-)
>
>Cheers,
>  
>

 From my experience it all comes right when you have finished creating 
all the partitions.. I am also ignored the error on occasionas and the 
system worked fine..

With that amount of space have you thought about using LVM as well, this 
will let you add, remove and resize logical volumes on the fly..

Later..





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