Well, after receiving numerous emails with suggestions and help, I've
finally got this raid thing setup
I just wanted to post and say thanks to all who helped.
allan
bruno
mike
surge
luca
gordon
and anyone else that helped that I might have forgotten. This has been a
really good experience and I must say that this is one of the best lists
that I've ever subscribed to. Anyhow, here's a rundown of what I finally
did to get a running system. Hopefully this will help in case another
newbie decides to give this a whirl.
1. Installed stock RH 6.0 system using kernel 2.2.5-15 (This kernel has the
necessary raid patch)
2. Setup up following partitions using fdisk during install process
disk 0:
/dev/sda1 16MB /boot 83 linux
/dev/sda2 128MB 82 linux swap
/dev/sda3 400MB / 83 linux
/dev/sda4 5 extended
/dev/sda5 500MB fd unknown
/dev/sda6 500MB fd unknown
/dev/sda7 175MB fd unknown
/dev/sda8 175MB fd unknown
disk 1:
/dev/sdb1 16MB 83 linux
/dev/sdb2 128MB 82 linux swap
/dev/sdb3 400MB 83 linux
/dev/sdb4 5 extended
/dev/sdb5 500MB fd unknown
/dev/sdb6 500MB fd unknown
/dev/sdb7 175MB fd unknown
/dev/sdb8 175MB fd unknown
(to set the partition type to fd, type the command 't', select the partition
you want to change and type 'fd' when prompted for the Hex code)
3. Finish installation process.
4. Reboot system.
5. Login as root
6. Install raidtools-0.90-3.i386.rpm from the distro CD
7. Setup /etc/raidtab per instructions from
http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/Software-RAID.HOWTO.txt for
raid 1
8. run 'mkraid /dev/md0'
9. run 'mke2fs -b 4096 /dev/md0
10. run 'mkinitrd --with=raid1 /boot/initrd 2.2.5-15
11. edit /etc/lilo.conf - change line 'initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.5-15.img'
to 'initrd=/boot/initrd'
12. run 'lilo'
13. Reboot system
14. Login as root
15. run 'cat /proc/mdstat' and it should show an active raid setup
Thanks again for all the help. Now to setup a bootable raid setup. :)
