On Sunday 07 May 2006 02:40, Robert Walter wrote: > i had the same problem like you. dualboot gentoo & xp on a software raid > chipset. (nforce4 in my case) unfortunately i didn't log all the steps > needed to set it up :-( , but i can give you my modified scripts (written > by gerte hoogewerf) and all the info i have to create an initrd if you > want to give it a try. that ram disk "initializes" the raid files in > /dev/mapper/*, before it is mounted sorry, i don't have all in mind right > now. i have to replay the installation steps first. some basic things i > still know. you need
...etc Well, I tried the Software-RAID-HOWTO, and used a SuSE 9.3 DVD I had lying around to create /dev/md0 to /dev/md5 on the /dev/sd[ab] disks that are attached to the SATA interface. SuSE installed just fine and is happy to run on these devices. In spite of that, when I boot the Gentoo 2006.0 installation CD and tell it: gentoo dodmraid dmraid=-ay It says in the boot sequence: Activating Device-Mapper RAID(s) No RAID disks Then when the image has booted, I say fdisk -l and I see the partitions on /dev/sda and /dev/sdb with no trace of /dev/mdX. What am I doing wrong? Meanwhile I'll have a play with your scripts, Robert, and see if that gets me anywhere - thanks. -- Rgds Peter. -- [email protected] mailing list
