Nope. The raid is software raid. I managed to remove the disk with the root partition and tried to install on antoher drive and finally found out why it was unsuccesful: Although the partitions were formated in ext2 and reiserfs, disk partition table was indicating that it was a FAT fs!! It was just a corrupted partition table. Problem is that if you mount the specifing file system it goes great, but the install program maybe was guessing by what it was reported in partition table.... Only way to get it was when I found that mounting without file system type complaint about.
Sorry for the delay giving this feedback, but after a failed upgrade to 9.0 of rpm's by hand I have even lost mail! (an missed some mail addressed to me ;-) Thanx a lot for your interest! El mié, 20-11-2002 a las 03:21, Joseph Braddock escribió: > If you are using RAID 5, then removing a single drive will not keep the > RAID from running (the RAID just assumes the drive failed). If you are > trying to install to the non-raid drive, you might try removing the > cable from your raid controller, so only the non-raid drive is detected. > > Joeb > > > On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 16:16, ddc_prueba wrote: > > I'm fordwarding this message again to the list because I did not get any > > answer I wanted to give it another try to see if anyone can help me... > > > > I found something more: I removed (phisically) the hardisk containing > > the root partition of the raid mdk so the installation program could not > > access to it by no mean and would only see the non-raid mdk OS, but it > > said that it cannot find a root partition to upgrade, even thought it > > boots correctly (full X+kde/gnome) with the non-raid mdk. !!!!!???? > > > > Anything before going mad and formating all the drives??? Thanx. > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > From: ddc_prueba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [expert] Select wich partition upgrade qhen installing to MDK 9.0 > > Date: 17 Nov 2002 17:23:23 +0100 > > > > As I'm having torubles to update a MDK 8.2 to 9.0 because of raid 0 (the > > provided Mandrake patch on the errata page does not suit me), I have > > made a complete copy of the system in other spare partitions but without > > raid and changed fstab and deleted raidtab to make it bootable and > > workable (it is 100% functional by now). > > > > The problem is that when I use mandrake installation CD's and select > > 'upgrade', it assumes the OS partition to upgrade is the one with raid > > instead of the 'new' one. How can I force the system to choose the other > > OS or at least ask me before? > > > > Any hint will be wellcomed. Thanx in advance. > -- > Joseph Braddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Diego Dominguez __/\__ | | Andalucia / \ Spain \ / |__ __| \/ _______________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger Nueva versión: Webcam, voz, y mucho más ¡Gratis! Descárgalo ya desde http://messenger.yahoo.es
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