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