bootable failed sw raid 1 with F9

Frank Murphy frankly3d-fedoracore at utvinternet.com
Sun Jun 15 17:51:02 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 19:43 +0200, Sander Hoentjen wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> For the first time in my life i tried to install Fedora with sw raid.
> See below what went wrong.
> 
> Here is what I did:
> Start with 2 empty 500GB sata disks.
> Make sure nvraid is turned off in my BIOS.
> Start an F9 install, creating 2 sw RAID partitions: md0 and md1.
> md0 is 100MB and has an ext3 /boot.

This could be the blind leading the blind,
but just raided my centos5.
and was advised not to raid the /boot.
as it can get confused as to waht to boot from.
If you need a backup boot just rsync it to the second drive as
/boot1 (or similar)


Frank




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