On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 04:20:59PM -0600, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: > After discovering that the amd64 Debian Installer netinst images have > been broken recently, I retreated to sarge. > > At first glance, I was having pretty good luck, but I ran into a snag > during boot loader installation. > > During partitioning, I set up both software RAID1 and LVM. After > partitioning, I tried to install LILO in the MBR on /dev/md0, but it > didn't work. I tried advanced mode and tried /dev/mapper/vg-root as > an installation target, but that was invalid, as well. > > I've seen posts suggesting that this ought to work without a non-LVM / > boot partition, so I'm wondering whether this is an issue that's > peculiar to sarge on amd64?
If you setup your system like this (quite doable with sarge installer last I tried): /dev/sda1 /dev/md0 /boot (128M or so) /dev/sdb1 /dev/md0 /boot (128M or so) /dev/sda2 /dev/md1 / (Maybe 10G or whatever makes sense to you) /dev/sdb2 /dev/md1 / (Maybe 10G or whatever makes sense to you) /dev/sda3 /dev/md2 LVM /dev/sdb3 /dev/md2 LVM swap, /home, etc all as volumes inside lvm. Then install grub to /dev/sda and /dev/sdb (The MBR of each physical disk, being the _only_ MBR there is). / and /boot could be combined if you want. Most modern systems have no need for a seperate /boot. And for your own sanity, pretend lilo doesn't exist anymore. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
