On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 05:34:54PM -0500, Keith Ballantyne wrote: > > >For the 31r1a to recognize your network, if it went as in my case, the > >installer shouldhave proposed you with a list of network modules. You have > >to choose something call nforether,I believe. > > Thanks. the 31r1a installer works with the nForce2 network card 10/100 > driver on my asus a8n-e. > > So, I've installed about 6 different ways, utltimately arriving at some > critical error somewhere along the way. > I've read most of the faq/helps/howtos and archives that I could find, and > I still have the same problem. > > I want to use RAID0 for the bulk of my file system. I would like to even > use RAID0 for my boot and swap partitions. I followed the instructions > outlined at > http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_software_raid?from=10&comments_per_page=10 > and got further than ever before, but couldn't successfully install either > GRUB or LILO. > > The article above suggests 4 raid partitions > /boot (50M) > /swap (1G) > / (10G) > /var (the rest) > > It is also written specifically for RAID1, though it implies that doing the > same for RAID0 would work. I'm worried because I'm unsure if the MBR is > 'striped' in RAID 0, or if the MBR's of each of my 4 drives are exempt. > Regardless, I've tried it three ways: > > case 1: /boot as a specific 50M partition, on the 1st SATA drive (ext3)
Makes sense. > case 2: /boot as a RAID1 collection of the first 50M worth of all 4 SATA > drives (ext3). Raid 1 only does two drives. At least in normal setups. You can stripe mirrors or mirror stripes of course to make bigger setups. > case 3: /boot as a RAID0 collection of the first 50M worth of all 4 SATA > drives (ext3). > note: In all 3 cases, the remainder of the drive was configured as a > RAID0 array, and I used LVM (1 volume group) to created two logical > volumes, a 4G swap volume and the rest (to mount as /). > > case 1: allowed me to complete installation, grub appeared to install okay, > but it doesn't boot, I just get a blank screen. > case 2: the partitioner seemed to change the partition types, and would > never let me install GRUB. Grub works fine if you do raid1 on two partitions. Trying 4 won't work. Too complex for the boot loader. > case 3: would never allow GRUB (or LILO) to install on the RAID0 array. It > kept indicating that status couldn't be reread from /dev/md/0. When I > rebooted, I would reconstruct the partitions as outlined in case 3 above, > and the same error would occur. The boot loaders don't know raid0 as far as I know. > So, right now I have everything installed except an operational bootloader. Make /boot a raid1 using a 50M partition on the first two drives. Install grub to the MBR of both those drives. Or just make it a plain partition. If you use raid0 at all, reliability is obviously not an issue for the system overall, and performance for /boot is not an issue either so a plain single partition on the first drive is fine. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
