On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 22:34 -0500, Paul wrote:
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 23:19 -0400, Gerald Waugh wrote:
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 21:14 -0500, Paul wrote:
I read while searching for this problem that RHEL3 won't boot from a RAID partition, is that true of RHEL4 / CentOS4?
I believe so ... I usually make a 100MB /boot partition on the first drive and a similar sized /boot2 partition on the second drive and once things are up & running and use dd to copy the boot loader on the second drive and copy the files from /boot to /boot2 every time I update the kernel.
Looks like your correct, if I make a small partition on each drive and format it ext3, then make the rest of the partitions RAID it works OK.
That disk druid is a mess, when trying to partition two drives. It keeps moving the dam partitions around. for example I partition hda like I want then make hdc1 to match hda1, then try to make another partition to match hda2, it will change the first partition to hdc2 and make the new one hdc1...
That's why I tell it to put the partition on a specific drive ... it would be nice if you selected a particular drive then it would default to putting the partition on that drive.
I thought I did, when creating a partition there is hda and hdc, and I set the asterisk on the drive I am working on. Still does not work correctly. So I used a rescue disk, partitioned both drives as I wanted with fdisk. Then when I tried to make RAID partitions with disk druid, it would give member choices like hda2/hdc3 or hda4/hdc2, it never would let me create members like hda2/hdc2 and so forth.
Gerald