I'm trying to install gentoo on a system with an onboard promise raid
controller and two ide
harddrives running as a mirrored array.
Booting the live cd, the MD raid modules get loaded ok.. but where do i
point fdisk to partition
the array?
Ive installed gentoo before but never with a raid setup
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:02:06AM +1100, Mark Saunders wrote:
> I'm trying to install gentoo on a system with an onboard promise raid
> controller and two ide
> harddrives running as a mirrored array.
>
> Booting the live cd, the MD raid modules get loaded ok.. but where do i
> point fdisk to par
I've looked all through dmesg, and I'm not getting a /dev/md0.
I've got a /dev/md/ and a /dev/rd/.
There are a whole series of files in these directories.
I can fdisk /dev/rd/1 etc but fdisk reports the size as 8 megabytes?
should i be using the MD driver or the promise driver?
I've also tried lo
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 00:23, Alan wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:02:06AM +1100, Mark Saunders wrote:
> > I'm trying to install gentoo on a system with an onboard promise raid
> > controller and two ide
> > harddrives running as a mirrored array.
> >
> > Booting the live cd, the MD raid module
The pdcraid module fails on loading.
The livecd loads the MD modules (this is software raid?).
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 11:32, Mike Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 00:23, Alan wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:02:06AM +1100, Mark Saunders wrote:
> > > I'm trying to install gentoo on a sys
Mark Saunders wrote:
I'm trying to install gentoo on a system with an onboard promise raid
controller and two ide
harddrives running as a mirrored array.
Booting the live cd, the MD raid modules get loaded ok.. but where do i
point fdisk to partition
the array?
Ive installed gentoo before but ne
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->The pdcraid module fails on loading.
->The livecd loads the MD mod
modprobe ataraid goes ok..
modprobe pdcraid fails
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 11:47, Kevin J. Anderson wrote:
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On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 01:02, Mark Saunders wrote:
> Ive installed gentoo before but never with a raid setup.
Maybe this is a solution for your problem :
-- install gentoo as a single drive setup on a normal ide dev (like
/dev/hda)
-- compile a kernel with proper support for the promise controlle
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 05:17, Tarsoly András wrote:
> -- put the the disks onto the ide raid buses
sorry, i forgot :
before this step, edit your /etc/fstab and use the appropriate device
names (/dev/ataraid/foo) instead of /dev/hd*
i didn't tried it in this way, so, let me know how did you handle
Am Don, 2003-03-27 um 01.02 schrieb Mark Saunders:
> I'm trying to install gentoo on a system with an onboard promise raid
> controller and two ide
> harddrives running as a mirrored array.
>
> Booting the live cd, the MD raid modules get loaded ok.. but where do i
> point fdisk to partition
> th
Thanks Rene, i'll give that a try.
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 19:35, Rene Broichmann wrote:
> Am Don, 2003-03-27 um 01.02 schrieb Mark Saunders:
> > I'm trying to install gentoo on a system with an onboard promise raid
> > controller and two ide
> > harddrives running as a mirrored array.
> >
> > Boot
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