Are you using 2006.0? Have you seen the instructions for DM-RAID? The drives should be found as individual units as well if you're using an onboard RAID controller. If you don't have /dev/sd* then poke through "dmesg" for /dev/hd*.
--- Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm helping a friend install Gentoo on a new Dell PowerEdge > 2850. It's > got an on-board RAID card and he was wanting RAID-1. I get > Gentoo to > boot from the LiveCD, step through the install docs until I > get to the > partitioning stage. At this point I'm in unfamiliar territory > since > I've never worked with RAID before. I can see the kernel > module is > loaded and in use as megaraid_mm. But from what I can see, > [c]fdisk > isn't seeing any raid arrays. I don't have any /dev/sd*. I > do have > /dev/rd/0 through 15 but cfdisk says it's 8MB. I also see > /dev/mapper/control but nothing else in /dev/mapper. > > Where do I go from here? > > Assuming I can partition from fdisk, should I put the whole > thing in > RAID-1? I've seen places that say do swap on each drive, not > mirrored. > I'm not sure how you'd do that either. > > Any guidance is appreciated. > > Thanks, > Rob > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
