Hello,
FYI, I tried the 7.1 Beta and it does the right thing with regards to root
raid (raid0 anyway). It installed like 7.0 but it was able to use the raid
as root. I'm not sure what was fixed: whether it was the persistent
superblock or autodetection but it appears to be working now.
I think Mandrake is quickly becoming the best server distro out there.
Cheers,
Scott Patten
--On Monday, June 05, 2000 3:46 PM -0700 Gavin Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> on 6/5/00 1:55 PM, Scott Patten wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to install 7.0 to a root partition that's a raid0 device
>> (/dev/md0). DrakeX seems to handle this but when I reboot, the kernel
>> can't detect md0. It appears as if the raid is created but it's just not
>> started automatically. Has anyone installed to a root raid before? Does
>> 7.1 Beta fix this? I tried creating the raid prior to install but DrakeX
>> doesn't seem to detect it. I'm trying to avoid installing to a single
>> drive and then copying to the raid.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>> Thank you,
>> Scott Patten
>
> I have boot raid running with mandrake 7.0 but I had to roll my own. I
> don't think the installer can handle raid, although diskdrake made it
> easy to set up the partitions and raidtab.
>
> You need to compile raid into the kernel.
>
> read the raid how-to and boot-raid how-to
>
> there is a linux-raid list that might be helpful
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>
>
> Gavin
