On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 01:52:30PM +0100, Christoph Pleger wrote: > Hello, > > > Configure the LSI to present individual disks and then use mdadm > > the normal way: partition the disks into two sets, a small /boot > > partition and a large /. (Or three partitions per disk: /boot, / > > and /home.) > > > > Create mdadm pairs for each of sda1,sdb1 sda2,sdb2 sda3,sdb3 > > ... and set /dev/md0, for /boot, as bootable. The Debian > > installer can handle all of this easily. > > Isn't it possible to use mdadm for mirroring disks as a whole, instead of > single partitions?
Yes, but if it's going to be your main boot and root, don't do that. > I am not using the debian installer, but want to boot from network with an > NFSROOT, create a basic system on the RAID and then reboot from RAID. That's fine. All of this can be done by hand with fdisk or parted, mdadm, and mkfs. -dsr-
