On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 11:28 -0700, Brian Tillman wrote: > > On Jun 15, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: > > > On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 19:43 +0200, Sander Hoentjen wrote: > > > > > Hi list, > > > > > > > > > For the first time in my life i tried to install Fedora with sw > > > raid. > > > > > > See below what went wrong. > > > > > > > > > Here is what I did: > > > > > > Start with 2 empty 500GB sata disks. > > > > > > Make sure nvraid is turned off in my BIOS. > > > > > > Start an F9 install, creating 2 sw RAID partitions: md0 and md1. > > > > > > md0 is 100MB and has an ext3 /boot. > > > > > > > > > This could be the blind leading the blind, > > > > but just raided my centos5. > > > > and was advised not to raid the /boot. > > > > as it can get confused as to waht to boot from. > > > > If you need a backup boot just rsync it to the second drive as > > > > /boot1 (or similar) > > > > > > > > Frank > > > > > > Although you haven't told us "what went wrong" (IE errors, when in the > boot process your system fails ect). > Not sure if you are referring to me or Brian, but I did try to tell when the errors did occur: <quote> It starts ok, i even get rhgb for a second and then I see: "fsck.ext3: Invalid argument while trying to open /dev/md0" </quote> > > I would highly recommend using raid on your /boot partition, this will > enable you to boot should you loose a disk This is exactly why i did it like that. > > > I would imagine that you only wrote to the MBR for one of your disks, > and your bios is attempting to boot from the other. If this is the > case your bios will report "no operating system installed" or > something to that effect. Again not sure if your reply is to me, but from my email you can read this is not the case for me. Regards, Sander -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
