-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Mathieu Malaterre put forth on 12/3/2009 12:03 PM: >> Hi there, >> >> I am trying to setup a system with software RAID for the first time. >> I used a debian/stable/503 USB key installer. During the partitioning >> I selected each FREE SPACE as raid, I configured then a RAID0 system. >> And setup a LVM volume group on this RAID system. >> >> When setting up the boot loader, lilo failed to work properly. >> Looking at the log is says: >> >> ... >> Dec 3 17:42:32 in-target: WARNING: Added large-memory option, please >> run lilo before you reboot >> Dec 3 17:42:32 in-target: Running lilo... >> Dec 3 17:42:32 in-target: Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed >> Dec 3 17:42:32 in-target: Fatal: Only RAID1 devices are supported as >> boot devices > > Read about the various RAID levels, especially RAID 0 (striping), and > you'll understand why the Linux kernel developers will not allow you to > boot Linux from a RAID 0 (striped) set of disks. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID > > You are up against an _intentional_ design limitation. >
Why would they intentionally limit booting from this type of RAID setup? Is it suddenly alright to boot from a firmware RAID that presents the RAID0 array as a single disk? The implications are the same, the difference is that Linux probably cannot detect it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksYKpcACgkQkPq5zKsAFijPOwCfS+biqIZi7EMfSdxKoXthbua5 tlYAoIZ6+5reNpSoY0jh8qxTvz8R+tyw =9e8e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
