On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:42:31PM -0500, Martin Stone wrote: > Mike Cisar wrote: > >Have just attempted to do a clean install of FC1 and set up software RAID 1 > >during the install process. I have 2x 120Gig IDE drives which I want to > >RAID1 and then split into 3 partitions (/, /boot and swap). I want /boot > >to > >be the first partition (if it's not the first partition it ends up getting > >the error "system may not be bootable, blah, blah"). In a non-raid > >configuration this is not a problem, if I flat as EXT3 it seems to > >recognize > >that /boot should be "first" and always shuffles it to the first partition > >(if I don't specify the partition as /boot it still seems to shuffle it off > >sometimes to a higher partition, though not always). However, if I go and > >try to select SOFTWARE RAID as the partition type, the small partition > >which > >would be boot once I set up the raid ends up getting pushed up to the 2nd > >or > >3rd partition which then spits up the error message again. > > > >So far the only solution I've found is to run the installer, partition the > >1st drive, cancel the install once partition table has been written, start > >the install again, partition the 2nd drive, cancel again and then start the > >install a 3rd time at which point I can change the existing partition types > >to Software RAID, raid the drives and complete the install. > > > >There must be an easier way, help :-) > > I'm in the same boat. I may be alone in this, but I absolutely *hate* all > these new-fangled partition twiddlers a la "Disk Druid". What I do is boot > from CD the first time with "linux rescue", partition using fdisk, and > reboot - it's faster and less annoying. You should be able to do something > similar, except that you will have to fdisk twice, with a "raidstart" in > between... > > I sure wish we could get at fdisk from the installer, though. Switch to console #2 (C-A-F2) and you get a shell. :) Regards, Luciano Rocha
