Thanks to *NeddySeagoon *from Gentoo forums, I've been able to resolve
my problem. It turned out not to be RAID related at all: I made and
mistake in configuring support for my IDE controller!
R
It is possible to boot from RAID if it's mirrored (not if it's
striped!) The BIOS doesn't need to know how to boot it I suppose
because the MBR isn't RAIDed. But things seem to work now, so phew!
R
Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Randall Barlow wrote:
Howdy, I'm trying a new install (since I hosed my last one) and I
figured I'd give the RAID+LVM thing a go. I followed the guide at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml
and everything seemed to have worked ok, but when I boot I get 3
no-fun (TM) lines:
You don't mention anything about addressing the problem of booting a
RAID/mirrored_disk machine...
Do you know that the BIOS doesn't know what a raid device is and can't
boot off it? There is some trickery involved, but not having done it I
don't know how. To start you could set up your root partition on a
regular drive and get /usr and your other partitions working on RAID
first.
Joe
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