On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 02:06:27PM +1000, Julian De Marchi wrote: > > The installer does not allow / (root), /boot or swap to be part of a > > RAID array. I consequently had to put them in only one of these hard > > drives as "ordinary" partitions, along with /tmp. > > I also found etch not to allow this. Lenny however has the newer grub > which can boot of a mdXX device. :)
Funny, I'm running Etch with everything on raid1 and all but /boot on LVM over top of it, right out of Etch's installer. I have swap encrypted and mount /tmp on tmpfs: it means access is as fast as memory until something hits swap (very rarely happens). > > However, unexplained is, you have to manually install grub to each > device in the raid. I fell for this, when HDD caddies killed two > devices in my raid, I replaced the drives, and upon reboot got that > dreaded flashing cursor. Thats how I discovered you have to install > grub to each drive in the array. grub-install works on block devices. It has no way of knowing if the block device to which you point is is a raid array. The bios looks for something to boot on a hard drive, it doesn't know if its part of a raid array either. These both suggest that grub would have to be manually installed on both/add drives' MBRs. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
