I setup a 6 disk (5+1hotspare) a couple of years ago. I used this walk through: http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-12.1/README_RAID.TXT and it worked for me.
You're using GRUB so assigning the boot device will differ. On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 12:53 -0600, Chris R. Thompson wrote: > Hello, > > I am configuring an Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop with 4 disks; the primary is a > single disk where the O/S resides. The other 3 I am trying to configure in a > software raid 5. To do this I am using mdadm; the problem I am having is that > post configuration using cfdisk and the mdadm --create command, I restart, > and the OS tries to boot from the raid 5, rather then the single disk. I am > then stuck into the (initramfs) prompt and forced to repair by uninstalling > mdadm. > I am of the impression that the /boot is actually modified when > installing and configuring the mdadm. > The question at this point, is where do I need to configure the "boot" > option; and what would it be. The technical details are below. > single disk is /dev/sda1 > raid array 5 > /dev/sdb1 > /dev/sdc2 > /dev/sdd2 > the /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf > DEVICE partitions > ARRAY /dev/md0 > level=raid5 > num-devices=3 > metadata=00.90 spares=0 > UUID=275d06f7:703df9fd:baf54294:a0156108 > MAILADDR root > > Sincerely, > Chris Thompson > Done Right I.T. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
