Re: Fatal: Only RAID1 devices are supported as boot devices

2009-12-05 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> RAID0 is a truly silly misnomer. But many people use it because it >> gives them "one large and fast HD" on Windows, OS X, and Linux. If >> that is what Mathieu wants to do in spite of the lack of redundancy... > >        A

Re: Fatal: Only RAID1 devices are supported as boot devices

2009-12-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 01:45:37PM -0800, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > Tom H wrote: > > RAID0 is a truly silly misnomer. But many people use it because it > > gives them "one large and fast HD" on Windows, OS X, and Linux. If > > that is what Mathieu wants to do in spite of the lack of redundancy... >

Re: Fatal: Only RAID1 devices are supported as boot devices

2009-12-04 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Tom H wrote: > RAID0 is a truly silly misnomer. But many people use it because it > gives them "one large and fast HD" on Windows, OS X, and Linux. If > that is what Mathieu wants to do in spite of the lack of redundancy... Agreed -- if you can afford 4x1.5TB drives, you can afford a fift

Re: Fatal: Only RAID1 devices are supported as boot devices

2009-12-04 Thread Tom H
>> 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

Re: Fatal: Only RAID1 devices are supported as boot devices

2009-12-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mathieu Malaterre put forth on 12/4/2009 2:55 AM: > 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

Re: Fatal: Only RAID1 devices are supported as boot devices

2009-12-04 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> 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. > > I would advice to use software RAID ins

Re: Fatal: Only RAID1 devices are supported as boot devices

2009-12-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > 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. I would advice to use software RAID instead. As pointed out before, that requires the extra effort of mainta

Re: Fatal: Only RAID1 devices are supported as boot devices

2009-12-04 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Stan Hoeppner 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 > w

Re: Fatal: Only RAID1 devices are supported as boot devices

2009-12-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
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 k

Re: Fatal: Only RAID1 devices are supported as boot devices

2009-12-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 10:16:09PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Mathieu Malaterre put forth on 12/3/2009 12:03 PM: [snip] > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID > > > > You are up against an _intentional_ design limitatio

Re: Fatal: Only RAID1 devices are supported as boot devices

2009-12-03 Thread Nick Douma
-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 e

Re: Fatal: Only RAID1 devices are supported as boot devices

2009-12-03 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:20 PM, 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

Re: Fatal: Only RAID1 devices are supported as boot devices

2009-12-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 12:20:02PM -0600, 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

Re: Fatal: Only RAID1 devices are supported as boot devices

2009-12-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
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 LV