Fedora Core 4

[Andrew J Halls]

David-Paul Niner wrote:
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> tlc wrote:
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>>On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 23:27 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
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>>>Am Mi, den 09.11.2005 schrieb Nelson Tactuk um 23:22:
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>>>>I am trying to install Fedora Core 4 in a box Intel with a motherboad 
>>>>AUS A7V333 ACPI BIOS REV. 1005. I have two drives in RAID. When I 
>>>
>>>If you speak about a "RAID controller" on the motherboard itself, then
>>>it is "fake RAID / win-raid". 
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>>
>>not all onboard RAID controllers are fake RAID. But in this instance the
>>Promise 20276 is in deed a "fake" RAID controller.
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>>>You should get to use that with dmraid,
>>>but up to now (with FC4) it is not supported by the anaconda installer.
>>>You should see 2 drives instead of a single one.
>>>Or did you setup Linux software RAID with DiskDruid?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>finish the installation and reboot the machine, I have this error:
>>>>
>>>>Missing operating system
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>>When you use Disk Druid what partitions are created? Even if the drives
>>are set as a RAID you should see both drives in Disk Druid. If you want
>>to RAID them you can do it there.
>>
>>
>>>>Nelson
>>>
>>>Alexander
>>>
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> 
> You can try putting /boot on a non-raided partition.
> 
> Now that I think about, lvm2 may not even support booting from a raided
> partition.
> 
> In the event that you have concerns, remember that it's only accessed
> while the machine is booting (and during kernel updates/updates) and you
> can always create a backup of it on a raided partition if you'd like.
> 
> DP
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> David-Paul Niner, RHCE
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lvm2 does support booting from RAID ( under FC3 at least) am I am using 
it. Just make sure that you install grub on BOTH drives.
  see the ROOT-on-LVM-on-RAID HOWTO at 
http://www.midhgard.it/docs/lvm/html/index.html

Also Read All of the Howto's to do with Software RAID, LVM and GRUB at
	http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html

As it may not be as easy as you think

Andy H