On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 15:37 +0200, Stuart Murray-Smith wrote:
> On 8/9/07, Art Fore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have raid-1 setup as follows.
> >
> > MD3, 20 GB as / (SDA2, SDC2)
> > MD4, 267 GB as /home (SDA3, SDC3)
> > Swap as SDA5 1 gb and SDC5 1 gb
> >
> > Installation went fine on installation, but on reboot, it says disk has
> > no operating system.
> >
> > What did I do wrong and how can I fix it?
>
> I'm going to guess that you've installed this onto SATA drives, and/or
> you've enabled RAID in your BIOS. RAID-1 works awesomely on PATA
> drives, but one {may|may not} get the above error message when
> installing to SATA on some of the 'less-expensive' mobo's. Things get
> tricky when one writes grub to the MBR, and need to swap out the
> primary drive.
>
> You can also put swap into RAID as well. Consider two PATAs in parallel:
>
> md0-swap-swap-{hda1|hdb1}
> md1-ext3-/boot-{hda2|hdb2}
> md2-ext3-/{hda3|hdb3}
>
> What does:
>
> cat /proc/mdstat
>
> say?
>
> BTW, mdadm automaticly rebuilds your RAID devices if you startup using
> 'Rescue' on the 10.2 DVD :-) Way cool!
>
> HTH
>
> Stuart
>
> --
> Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
No, raid is not enabled in bios, I am using the Suse software raid1. It
was originally partitioned with Ubuntu, but on Suse installation, I set
MD3 to / and MD4 to /home and formated them extt3.
Art
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