On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:29:20 -0700 John Medway <[email protected]> dijo:
> Yep. Therein lies the difference. The desktop install does not seem to > include mdadm on the CD, and thus does not include RAID of any sort as an > option in the partitioner, unless you go through the jackassery of doing an > "aptitude install mdadm", after the CD boot. The idea come from > <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=408461>. > > Adding all the X foo to a server distro seemed just too messy, which is why > I did it this way, instead. But really, no RAID on a desktop? Hello ubuntu? That is not all. Assuming you get your software RAID set up to your liking with mdadm on Ubuntu, when you do a dist-upgrade, watch out. I used mdadm to set up mirrored partitions when I installed Hardy as the first, fresh install on a new computer with two identical hard disks. Everything was fine until I eventually did a dist-upgrade to Intrepid. For some reason that I cannot understand, the dist-upgrade changed the Grub menu.lst file on only one of the two disks. And I also fail to grasp why Grub cannot seem to install itself on mda, as it is installed individually on the two disks. And it always tries to boot from the one that does not have the updated menu.lst file. I need to go in and manually copy the /boot folder from the good one to the bad one in order to get rid of the Grub Error 15 messages. I haven't bothered because the computer rarely needs to be rebooted - I just select the previous kernel to boot to. Ubuntu does need to get its collective head around mdadm. But, having said that, I found that several other distros do not come with mdadm either. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
