a quick fix may be to install the distribution onto a non raid'd drive and just copy it over once the raid is setup. this is how i setup my (software) based raid servers.. installed to 1 partition, made the rest of the partitions mirrored, and just cp -a'd the files over after i made the raid arrays.(resized the root partition too)
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sda1 839599 126369 669857 16% / /dev/md0 1189050 786848 340759 70% /usr /dev/md1 1484447 939148 468595 67% /users /dev/md2 513082 349434 137146 72% /var /dev/md3 147666 161 139880 0% /tmp /dev/sdb1 839599 272200 524026 34% /stuff might save you a lot of pain & suffering with installing directly to a raid array from the start. does the mylex raid controller support booting linux off a raid array? from what i read the root partition cannnot be part of a raid array without some crafty configuration. nate On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Enrico Zini wrote: zinie > zinie >On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: zinie > zinie >> > > Try `mem=256M' instead. zinie >> > > Please let me now how the Mylex performs ... zinie >> > No luck: the installation keeps hanging asking about colors. zinie >> Try `mem=255M' instead. zinie > zinie >Fine, I'll give it a try tomorrow. zinie > zinie >Even if it starts, anyway, the problem remains: raid disks on DAC960 zinie >aren't neither EIDE nor SCSI disks, and /dev/rd* devices are not created zinie >in the normal boot floppies; a quick hack I thought of is to change the zinie >major numbers of /dev/sda* devices, so that Debian installation will zinie >believe it's coping with normal scsi devices; I'm not satisfied with it, zinie >however, since normal devices for it should be named something like zinie >/dev/rd/c0d0*. No, that's not on a Sun. BTW RedHat 6.0 used that c0d0* zinie >convention right, so their boot disks can be worth a glance for zinie >`ideas' O:-) zinie > zinie >Another problem is the Asus mainboard has an Adaptec UW SCSI controller zinie >built-in that has been disabled on the BIOS configuration. Sadly, just the zinie >SCSI bios has been disabled from that board, and the Linux Adaptec driver zinie >hangs when it finds its controller. The only way I found to avoid Debian zinie >boot disks try to load Adaptec drivers, is to make a new kernel. zinie > zinie >No use were the adaptec boot disks from zinie >http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/, and even RH6 hung when trying to zinie >initialize it: RH6 can only be installed in 'expert' mode, on that zinie >machine. Not that I'm afraid of expert modes, anyway. zinie > zinie > zinie > Read you soon! Enrico zinie > zinie > zinie > zinie >-- zinie >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null zinie > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 2:49pm up 95 days, 2:26, 1 user, load average: 0.39, 0.35, 0.55
