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On 6 March 2013 18:47, Adam Wolfe <kadamwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had one h**l of a time doing this over the weekend. > > What finally worked for me was creating LOGICAL partitions on each drive and > setting them as used for RAID volume devices. > This gave me /dev/sda5, /dev/sdb5 etc etc. > When grub did it's install, it added all the /dev/sda1 etc partitions and > rebooted fine. > > When I tried primary partitions, grub would just fail and I'd have to > restart the whole install process over. > > NOTE: when booting from the install cd i had to [tab] the 'install' menu > entry and add "dmraid=true". > Then after the initial install, it would still fail to boot. > Back to the install cd, choose 'rescue', [tab] and add 'dmraid=true' again. > Then get thee to a shell and 'grub-install --recheck /dev/sdaX' for each > partition. > > > > > On 03/06/2013 01:37 PM, Dick Thomas wrote: >> >> What is the best way to setup a raid 5 array (4* 2TB drives) >> should I make raid 5 for my system and /home >> then raid 0 or 1 for the boot, or should I buy a 5th drive for >> system/boot and install in the standard way? >> as this is my 1st time on debian and not sure what would be best >> >> >> Dick Thomas >> About.me http://about.me/dick.thomas >> Blog: www.xpd259.co.uk >> G+: www.google.com/profiles/xpd259 >> gpg key: C791809B >> >> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51378f3e.20...@gmail.com > I've tried installing from my "hardware" motherboard raid and that just fails even with dmraid=true atm i've got a raid 0 /boot raid 5 encrypted then /lvm /lvm/swap /lvm/root //var/log but wasn't sure if that was the way to do it or am I just confusing matters more :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAGe0=N2LR9XJgOcXHPz3cJVtD7=x3oon3wmnlr5xjtgvair...@mail.gmail.com
