On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 14:53, Stewart Nelson wrote: > As a result, I was forced to use software RAID for all drives. > > 1. Could you please recommend a reliable and reasonably priced SATA > controller with hardware RAID-1 capability, BIOS boot code and a > compatible Linux driver? or, The 3ware cards do hardware raid and work well with Linux. They are a lot more expensive that the ones that make the driver do the work in software. > 3. Is there a way to set up two separate boot partitions, MBRs, etc., > so that either can boot the system? If you set the raid partitions up during the install and make /boot a mirrored partition the installer should take care of setting up the MBR on both drives. (This is based on installing RH9 on scsi drives using lilo, so it could easily be wrong for fedora and/or grub). You also have to test to see if the system will boot at all if you have a failed primary drive. Most older IDE systems won't. The IBM Netfinity where I did the SCSI setup would move on to the 2nd drive and boot. I haven't tried anything with SATA controllers yet. I have seen the installer do some really stupid things when trying to create raid mirrors (like rearrange the partition layout, or try to pair things on the same drive). You can force the layout by using fdisk to make the partitions manually, then starting the install over and picking the partitions for each md set. If the partitions already exist, the installer won't try to rearrange them (again, not based on current FC2, this could be fixed now...). I'm sure there is a simple lilo/grub invocation to write the loader on the 2nd drive if you have a /boot partition there and keep it up to date. --- Les Mikesell les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
