Software RAID setup at install...

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:42:31PM -0500, Martin Stone wrote:
> 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 :-)
> 
> I'm in the same boat.  I may be alone in this, but I absolutely *hate* all 
> these new-fangled partition twiddlers a la "Disk Druid".  What I do is boot 
> from CD the first time with "linux rescue", partition using fdisk, and 
> reboot - it's faster and less annoying.  You should be able to do something 
> similar, except that you will have to fdisk twice, with a "raidstart" in 
> between...
> 
> I sure wish we could get at fdisk from the installer, though.

Switch to console #2 (C-A-F2) and you get a shell. :)

Regards,
Luciano Rocha