On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:35:54 -0800 Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to install x86 4.4-release on a RAID mirror 465.8g disk.
...
> The BIOS shows there are two disks of 500G.
Sorry, my mind reading skills are less than perfect, but since your
BIOS shows two disks, you might not using hardware RAID, so it
seems as though you're trying to use softraid(4) on your boot disk,
when the man page specifically reads:
$ man softraid |grep boot
There is no boot support at this time for any disciplines.
If you've set the filesystem type to "RAID" as described in the
softraid(4) man page, then you've probably skewered yourself in such a
way that you're preventing a normal install on either wd0 or wd1.
On the other hand...
If you are actually using a supported hardware RAID controller, and
you've used the CMOS/BIOS utility of the *controller* to set up a
mirrored pair of disks, then the volume should be presented by the BIOS
to the OS as a sdX device.
Attempting to install onto wd0 or wd1 when the two disks are being used
in a mirrored pair by the hardware RAID controller will probably cause
all sorts of "Bad Things" (c)(tm)(r) to happen.
If you mistakenly bought a dumb "Windows RAID" device which requires
special MS-Windows drivers to perform the RAID functionality, then you
are completely hosed. At the very best, you might get the device to
function properly as a dumb controller but it will never work as
advertised (e.g. a bootable "RAID" device).
To spare yourself from further mind reading attempts, please provide
more information, including the required dmesg, and also wear a high
quality foil helmet.
Thanks,
J.C. Roberts
