Hi Ron! I'm Not a fan of software raid (but that's just me), take a look at this: i could have write a how to for you but since im reasonable lazy and somebody has written about it and they are better than me, here: http://www.howtoforge.com/install-ubuntu-with-software-raid-10
and from ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/advanced-installation.html hth, (the truth is out there - just google it!) Dan On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Ron <nha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > This has been driving me nuts for 2 days now: > > I got a new h/w with 6 SATA drives, am installing it to use software raid: > > /boot -- /dev/md0 -- raid 1 > swap -- /dev/md1 -- raid 0 > / -- /dev/md2 -- raid 6 > > /dev/md0 consists of sda1 and sdb1 > /dev/md1 consists of sdc1,sdd1,sde1 and sdf1 > /dev/md2 consists of sda2,sdb2,sdc2,sdd2,sde2,sfe2 > > on the part where it install grub, i get an error that installing grub > on /dev/sda/ and /dev/sdb fails, can't figure out that part. > > tried loading a knoppix image and try to install grub manually but > knoppix seems cant detect the software raid as fdisk only see a > partition that is GPT. haven't tried live CD that's the next thing i > will try. but has anyone experience the same thing before? any help > would be truly appreciated. > > Regards, > Ron > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Registered Linux User# 459081 Linux machine registration number# 369005. Linux users please register and be counted! http://counter.li.org Key ID # CA53B229
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