Thank you for looking into this issue. What you describe is what I was trying to do. Did not quite understand the basic concepts of RAID I guess, but now I think I get it.
What I did: I marked the newly created RAID0 volume and pressed enter, and I got a question if I wanted to create a new partiton table on it, and what type it should be. Options was "msdos" and a whole bunch of other types (this menu coming up is a bug?). I then created partitions on the RAID0 volume (hda1, hda5, hda6 etc) and this being possible is a bug too? I tried this again this weekend and then I didnt create a partition table on the RAID0 volume, I only changed the "filesystem type" from the default (which I think was LVM) to ReiserFS, set the mount point to "/", and then I could proceed creating the filesystem. And all was well... For a bit... GRUB failed to install in the MBR, but that is probably just the known bug #251905. (which can be resolved by having a separate non-RAID /boot). Didnt find time to try that but I probably will soon. Regards /Bj�rn On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:28:54 +1100, Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:07:48PM +0100, Bj?rn Nilsson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have 2 equally sized IDE PATA disks. > > I created a partition covering the whole drive on each disk, the > > partition type was "raid". > > I created a software RAID0 array, and in turn created partitions on it > > and set them to ReiserFS. > > So you created one big RAID partition, and then made partitions in it? This > is contrary to the way RAID on Linux works, and if partman allowed you to do > it, that's a bug, and explains what happened next... > > > In the next step, When the filesystem are supposed to be created a get > > a red screen telling me: " Failed to create ReiserFS part1 on RAID0- > > unit0". If i swich to the third virtual console i see this messsage: > > "Stat of the device /dev/md/0/part1" failed. > > > > > > I have tried RAID1 also, ext3 instead of Reiser. Also tried to use the > > LVM to set up a volume group and so on, all with about the same > > result, failure when creating file system. > > > > So I installed on just 1 drive as normal, and that worked fine > > (impressive stuff with the hw autodetection btw!) > > > > I have tried with rc2 and nightly build from 2005-01-05, same result > > > > I read some problems with lilo or grub when using software raid, but > > that seems unrelated becouse this is well before any bootloader is > > installed. > > > > If you want to do what you've described, you'll need to put LVM over the top > of the RAID0 volume, and create multiple logical volumes out of it, and > treat them as you would partitions. > > regards > > Andrew > > -- > linux.conf.au 2005 - http://linux.conf.au/ - Birthplace of Tux > April 18th to 23rd - http://linux.conf.au/ - LINUX > Canberra, Australia - http://linux.conf.au/ - Get bitten! > > >
