Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 install on one RAID 1 [not-so-SOLVED]

2017-01-26 Thread Tru Huynh
Hi, It's all in the documentation from Red Hat. kickstart snip https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Installation_Guide/sect-kickstart-examples.html manual partitionning

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 install on one RAID 1 [not-so-SOLVED]

2017-01-26 Thread Eugene Poole
First let me say I am not a true expert, but I am experienced. If this machine you purchased was some name brand, you must be speaking about hardware raid, true? If this is true, it normally presents you with what looks like a standard drive (/dev/sda) for every 2 drives configured as raid-1.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 install on one RAID 1 [not-so-SOLVED]

2017-01-26 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article <5ef97952-14c0-6ad2-0803-c24691a68...@gmail.com>, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 01/26/2017 01:40 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote: > > Anaconda doesn't set up the boot sector on the second drive by default, > > so I put some grub commands in the post-install section of

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 install on one RAID 1 [not-so-SOLVED]

2017-01-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/26/2017 01:40 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote: Anaconda doesn't set up the boot sector on the second drive by default, so I put some grub commands in the post-install section of kickstart to do so. I can't attest that it *works* (mostly since I use UEFI everywhere possible) but anaconda

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 install on one RAID 1 [not-so-SOLVED]

2017-01-26 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article <1485416344.2047.1.ca...@biggs.org.uk>, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > If you are using RAID 1 kernel mirroring, you can do that with /boot too, > > and Grub finds the kernel just fine. I've done it many times: > > > > > Hmm, OK. I wonder why anaconda doesn't do it

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 install on one RAID 1 [not-so-SOLVED]

2017-01-25 Thread Pete Biggs
> > If you are using RAID 1 kernel mirroring, you can do that with /boot too, > and Grub finds the kernel just fine. I've done it many times: > > Hmm, OK. I wonder why anaconda doesn't do it then. Reading various websites, it looks like grub2 can do it, but you have to make sure that various

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 install on one RAID 1 [not-so-SOLVED]

2017-01-25 Thread Rob Kampen
On 26/01/17 05:46, Tony Mountifield wrote: In article <1485342377.3072.6.ca...@biggs.org.uk>, Pete Biggs wrote: On Tue, 2017-01-24 at 17:14 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: So, it installed happily. Then wouldn't boot. No problem, I'll bring it up with pxe, then chroot and

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 install on one RAID 1 [not-so-SOLVED]

2017-01-25 Thread m . roth
Gordon Messmer wrote: > You didn't answer all of the questions I asked, but I'll answer as best > I can with the information you gave. > Manitu ate my email, *again*. > On 01/25/2017 04:47 AM, mark wrote: >> >> Made an md RAID 0 on the raw disks - /dev/sda /dev/sdb. No partitions, >> nothing. > >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 install on one RAID 1 [not-so-SOLVED]

2017-01-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
You didn't answer all of the questions I asked, but I'll answer as best I can with the information you gave. On 01/25/2017 04:47 AM, mark wrote: Made an md RAID 0 on the raw disks - /dev/sda /dev/sdb. No partitions, nothing. OK, so right off the bat we have to note that this is not a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 install on one RAID 1 [not-so-SOLVED]

2017-01-25 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article <1485342377.3072.6.ca...@biggs.org.uk>, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Tue, 2017-01-24 at 17:14 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > So, it installed happily. > > > > Then wouldn't boot. No problem, I'll bring it up with pxe, then chroot and > > grub2-install. > > > > Um,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 install on one RAID 1 [not-so-SOLVED]

2017-01-25 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Wed, January 25, 2017 9:51 am, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Let me see if I can, um, reboot this thread > > I made a RAID 1 of two raw disks, /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, *not* /dev/sdax > /dev/sdbx. Then I installed CentOS 7 on the RAID, with /boot, /, and swap > being partitions on the RAID. My

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 install on one RAID 1 [not-so-SOLVED]

2017-01-25 Thread m . roth
Let me see if I can, um, reboot this thread I made a RAID 1 of two raw disks, /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, *not* /dev/sdax /dev/sdbx. Then I installed CentOS 7 on the RAID, with /boot, /, and swap being partitions on the RAID. My problem is that grub2-install absolutely and resolutely refuses to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 install on one RAID 1 [not-so-SOLVED]

2017-01-25 Thread mark
On 01/24/17 19:00, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 01/24/2017 02:14 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: So, it installed happily. Then wouldn't boot. What did the storage configuration look like, exactly? I'd guess that you put one partition on each disk, combined those in a RAID1 MD array, made than an

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 install on one RAID 1 [not-so-SOLVED]

2017-01-25 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2017-01-24 at 17:14 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > So, it installed happily. > > Then wouldn't boot. No problem, I'll bring it up with pxe, then chroot and > grub2-install. > > Um, nope. I edited the device map from hd0 and hd1 being the RAID to > /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, then ran

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 install on one RAID 1 [not-so-SOLVED]

2017-01-24 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Tue, January 24, 2017 4:14 pm, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > So, it installed happily. > > Then wouldn't boot. No problem, I'll bring it up with pxe, then chroot and > grub2-install. > > Um, nope. I edited the device map from hd0 and hd1 being the RAID to > /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, then ran

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 install on one RAID 1 [not-so-SOLVED]

2017-01-24 Thread m . roth
So, it installed happily. Then wouldn't boot. No problem, I'll bring it up with pxe, then chroot and grub2-install. Um, nope. I edited the device map from hd0 and hd1 being the RAID to /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, then ran grup2-install. It now tells me can't identify the filesystem on hd0, and can't