Fedora Core 4

[Andrew J Halls]

Andrew J Halls wrote:
> 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:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 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". 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> not all onboard RAID controllers are fake RAID. But in this instance the
>>> Promise 20276 is in deed a "fake" RAID controller.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>> Orange Park, Florida, United States
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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
> 
	Also see http://www.dur.ac.uk/a.d.stribblehill/mirrored_grub.html

  and
	http://www.linuxsa.org.au/mailing-list/2003-07/1270.html

  for information on getting GRUB on to RAID

Andy H