I think this message may not have been posted. - Mark ==========================
I think I may have just wasted a day and a half of compiling. I have a system that has three SATA drives in it, two in a RAID1 mirror array and one standalone. The ASUS P5K-E motherboard has the Intel RAID chipset on it, so I configured the mirror array in hardware. I was able to install slackware and build LFS on two separate partitions of the array. At least, I think they got installed on the array; I accessed them via /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda3 (/dev/sda1 is swap space). Unfortunately, when I try to boot the system it acts like there is no bootloader in it (i.e., the hardware prompts me to insert a bootable device and press any key to continue). Yet I can boot either the slackware system or the LFS system by using RIP (Rescue Is Possible) and specifying either /dev/sda2 or /dev/sda3 as the root device. Questions: 1) Do I actually have a RAID system or not? How can I tell if linux is recognizing the RAID array as an array and not two separate drives? 2) If LFS and slackware are not recognizing the RAID array, how do I get them to do that? Is there any way, short of re-installing everything, to get the array recognized? 3) How do I get GRUB to work with a RAID array? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
