On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 05:57 -0400, Richard C Creighton wrote: > Art Fore wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 16:39 +0800, Art Fore wrote: > > > >> When I install 10.3 Beta3, it does not recognize the raid drive setup > >> from the previous beta2 install, same with beta2, it did not recognize > >> the beta1 install on raid. I have to go through and create the raid1 > >> drives each time. Is there any secret to get these permanent? It does > >> recognize a backup raid and wants to install on it. > >> > >> Art > >> > >> > > Well, this went from bad to worse. On initial reboot when it is > > installing the boot loader, it cannot find md3 which is where it just > > installed everything. Raid is as follows. > > > > md0 raid1 /boot 101 MB > > md1 raid0 swap 1 GB > > md3 raid1 / 20 GB > > md4 raid1 /home 267 GB > > > > When booting, it comes up it cannot find /dev/md3 for initrd > > > > Has procedures changed for installing on raid or is this a bug. > > > Let me ask: Does your system have any mixture of IDE or IDE and SATA > drives on it? The reason I ask is that as of 10.3 (generally kernels > above 2.6.18-20 (not sure exactly which one)) IDE devices were renamed > to SDxx from their historical HDxx designations. This has caused a > bunch of installation/conversion bugs, one of which sounds just like > what you are describing. Check out bug 304657 and others like it on > the buglist. It is possible with some manual GRUB editing to get 10.3 > entirely onto a MD raid including the boot loader but at the moment due > to the IDE/SATA rename bugs, it doesn't happen automatically. (yet). > I have a 4 array setup MD0=swap/Raid0 MD1=/boot Raid1, MD2=/ (root) > Raid1, MD3=/home Raid5 1TB. The MBR is part of the drive containing > MD1which starts at track 0. You will need to edit the partitions but > DO NOT FORMATthem if you want to preserve the data (such as home) but > you will have to reset the FSTAB mount points which don't get preserved > due to the name change bug. Eventually, it does work but the bugs make > it frustrating.
Thanks for the info. All of the drives are SATA except for the DVD. Art -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
