Hello,
I've massaged the script found here http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/User:Gervai/Raid_and_LVM_hook to mostly correctly install a machine that has a mirrored drive partitioned in md0 and md1, and a number of LVs in the one VG I put in it. There are some problems left, however: * In my systems, I have some directories (mount points!) which are not FHS conformant. These seem to get wiped out after the partitions are mounted. Running 'df' while installing the software says that these directories are not there, and in fact, they aren't. Maybe this is caused by unpacking base.tgz? How/where to best re-create them (they're mounted at this point)? * GRUB does not get correctly installed. Trying to boot locally, GRUB says: "GRUB Loading stage1.5" ... "Error 15". I found this reference to that error message that indicates that I have to change the way GRUB is installed in this case: http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/RedHat/2006-06/msg00204.html But I'm unsure about where to put this. * Installation takes a LOOOOONNNNGGG time (about 1.5-2 hours), due to the fact that the aforementioned script, along with disk_setup, requires multiple runs through formatting the disks, and also re-creating the RAID(s) on every install. I'd like to speed this up, but don't quite know how. Is using this script recommended, or how far is disk_setup2 from completion? Last, but not least, I'm unable to mail the author of that script because his and my mail systems don't interact quite well. I'd really like to talk to him, but I'll just dump the modifications to this list when I'm done with it if I can't make contact. TIA! Best, --Toni++
