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. Paul > > Gerald > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos