On Tuesday 28 June 2005 08:04, Siju George wrote: > Hi all, > > I did the following steps over and over. > > I have 2 80 GB hard disks > > During partitioning I > > 1) Partitioned both disks Identically into 3 partitions and marked > them as physical volume for RAID. The partition sizes are 2GB, 300MB, > and rest of the disk. > > 2) Then I configured RAID 1 on all partitions and I got 3 raid devices > namely 0, 1, 2 ( as displayed in the nstaller ) with 2GB, 300MB and > device 2 with the restof the disk space. > > 3) Now I make RAID device 0 as Swap > > 4) Then I make RAID device 1 as ext2 /boot > > 5) I make RAID device 2 as physical volume for LVM > > 6) I go to "Configure Logical Volume Manager" It says Partition table > of RAID1 device 2 is changed and it needs to rewrite the partition > table before configuring LVM. I say "YES" > > and it tells me > > The kernel was unale to re-read the partition table on /dev/md/2 ( > Invalid Argument ) > > This means Linux won't know anything nothing about modification you > made untill you reboot. you should reboot your computer before doing > anything with /dev/md/2 > > > When I reboot the Rais Devices are gone and i go through the circle > again and again??? > > What is it that I am missing??? Could some one please point out?? > > Thanksa lot to all of you for teaching me RAID :-) now its RAID + LVM > that I am trying to learn :-) > > kind regards > > Siju > > > > > > 7) hello Siju
here a link for settiny a raid 1 with the sarge installer, hope it can be of help. http://nepotismia.com/debian/raidinstall/ bye for now peter colton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]