On 8/10/07, Art Fore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 15:37 +0200, Stuart Murray-Smith wrote:
> > On 8/9/07, Art Fore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I have raid-1 setup as follows.
> > >
> > > MD3, 20 GB as / (SDA2, SDC2)
> > > MD4, 267 GB as /home (SDA3, SDC3)
> > > Swap as SDA5 1 gb and SDC5 1 gb
> > >
> > > Installation went fine on installation, but on reboot, it says disk has
> > > no operating system.
> > >
> > > What did I do wrong and how can I fix it?
> >
> > I'm going to guess that you've installed this onto SATA drives, and/or
> > you've enabled RAID in your BIOS. RAID-1 works awesomely on PATA
> > drives, but one {may|may not} get the above error message when
> > installing to SATA on some of the 'less-expensive' mobo's. Things get
> > tricky when one writes grub to the MBR, and need to swap out the
> > primary drive.
> >
> > You can also put swap into RAID as well. Consider two PATAs in parallel:
> >
> > md0-swap-swap-{hda1|hdb1}
> > md1-ext3-/boot-{hda2|hdb2}
> > md2-ext3-/{hda3|hdb3}
> >
> > What does:
> >
> > cat /proc/mdstat
> >
> > say?
> >
> > BTW, mdadm automaticly rebuilds your RAID devices if you startup using
> > 'Rescue' on the 10.2 DVD :-) Way cool!
> No, raid is not enabled in bios, I am using the Suse software raid1. It
> was originally partitioned with Ubuntu, but on Suse installation, I set
> MD3 to / and MD4 to /home and formated them extt3.
The Ubuntu partitioning shouldn't be a problem, though I usually give
new drives the once-over with:
shred -n 0 /dev/[drive_to_be_shredded_here] -vz
Are these PATA (old ATA) or SATA drives?
S~
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