Re: BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

2014-09-02 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 08/31/14 21:27, Chris Murphy wrote: On Aug 28, 2014, at 12:37 PM, Lars E. Pettersson l...@homer.se wrote: ... Yes, that was my intention, raid1 for /boot and raid6 for / Accidentally I set /boot also to raid6 :) But that can be fixed. Or do n-way raid1, which will cause /boot to have

Re: BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

2014-08-31 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 28, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Lars E. Pettersson l...@homer.se wrote: Hi! I tried to set up a system using four 3TB disks as a raid6. The disks are new, no old partitions laying around. I used a USB stick as install media (Fedora 20 x86_64 Gnome Live). I chose manual partitioning to

Re: BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

2014-08-31 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 28, 2014, at 12:21 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: I think using raid 1 (with the 1.0 header format) can work well for that. There can still grub issues with having a boot just work, but at least you have the stuff you need available. GRUB2 can locate vmlinuz/initramfs on

Re: BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

2014-08-31 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 28, 2014, at 12:37 PM, Lars E. Pettersson l...@homer.se wrote: On 08/28/14 20:21, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:10:54 -0700, Rick Stevens ri...@alldigital.com wrote: I think you need to reserve some small space on all the drives (and with 3TB drives you can

Re: BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

2014-08-29 Thread Peter Skensved
On my old system I use 1TB disks, with /boot as raid1, and grub boot-loader installed on all disks. On that one I can boot the system from any of disks. Which is quite handy. The problem here seem to be that due to the disks being large (larger than 1TB) they are setup as GPT (GUID

BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

2014-08-28 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
Hi! I tried to set up a system using four 3TB disks as a raid6. The disks are new, no old partitions laying around. I used a USB stick as install media (Fedora 20 x86_64 Gnome Live). I chose manual partitioning to get everything as I wanted. When this was ready I got the error message that

Re: BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

2014-08-28 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/28/2014 10:48 AM, Lars E. Pettersson issued this missive: Hi! I tried to set up a system using four 3TB disks as a raid6. The disks are new, no old partitions laying around. I used a USB stick as install media (Fedora 20 x86_64 Gnome Live). I chose manual partitioning to get everything

Re: BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

2014-08-28 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:10:54 -0700, Rick Stevens ri...@alldigital.com wrote: I think you need to reserve some small space on all the drives (and with 3TB drives you can afford to sacrifice a few MB), use the remainder as your RAID, and let the system put the boot partition in that reserved

Re: BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

2014-08-28 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 08/28/14 20:21, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:10:54 -0700, Rick Stevens ri...@alldigital.com wrote: I think you need to reserve some small space on all the drives (and with 3TB drives you can afford to sacrifice a few MB), use the remainder as your RAID, and let the