Thanks for sharing your experience with i686. I have now found out that SILO (the boot loader for SPARC architecture) requires the first partition of the hard disk not to start at 0 (cylinder I guess) but with the installation of Debian I have no way of making the first partition start at cylinder 1 instead. If I exit to the shell during install there is not even the fdisk command.
Any ideas how to do that? Regards ML ----- Original Message ----- From: Ad L. <mrd.debiann...@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 12:04 PM Subject: Re: How to install Debian 6 sparc with RAID 1 at installation First of all, I am not very experienced and use the i686 architecture, but what I did might help: I've put a variety of partitions on the 2 disks I use for the purpose of dual booting. One holds the filesystems etc. for the other OS, intended for legacy applications that I still use... may use. I've made the first partition of Debian 6 as single partition of 512MB, to be mounted as /boot. One of the next primary partitions is set up exactly the same on both disks, to be used as sRAID devices. After partitioning, I've set up software RAID using those 2 partitions. mdadm is used for management, and it simply works; increased read speeds, no errors. The only thing one might be slightly worried about is gparted not recognising the filesystems, but e2fsck and similar tools appear to work as usual. Hope it helps.. -- 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/CAO8t=bYTmgYqufQTBJa4g5yGiCHQnEEb2C1Wi9J+4Q=-vdv...@mail.gmail.com -- 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/1318415703.84915.yahoomail...@web111413.mail.gq1.yahoo.com