On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: > Mathieu Malaterre put forth on 12/3/2009 3:08 PM: > >> Ok so the issue is that /boot needs to be contiguous ? Hum, the error >> message is not as explicit as that... > > If you think about this for more than 30 seconds it's perfectly clear > why this is impossible. The block striping is performed by the kernel, > which means the kernel must be fully read from the disk before it can > control striping the data blocks across the disks. The machine BIOS > must load the kernel. The BIOS isn't aware of Linux striping. You can > boot from mirrored disks/partitions because /boot is contiguous on both. > You can't boot Linux software RAID5 for the same reason you can't boot > Linux RAID 0, contiguous /boot.
That's extremely clear indeed ! The issue is that I was confusing software RAID and hardware RAID. So I rebooted the system and in the BIOS I setup the RAID0. It now shows up as "DELL Virtual Disk" with 6Tb of disk (4 * 1.5Tb). What I do not understand is why the very first disk is visible... Should I install the /boot in this one ? Thanks again, -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
