Hi,
Thanks, yes that was the problem i was trying to get around. I can get a
serial terminal install, but i thought that doing a raid install via serial
terminal would give errors that the disk couldn't boot anymore. Do you know
if this is planned to be backwards compatible with 4.4?
Thanks.
Dave.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Feizhou" <feizhou at graffiti.net>
To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: [CentOS] installing raid1 via serial terminal during install
> Dave wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'm wanting to install centos via serial terminal on to a box without
>> monitor. It will be administered remotely via ssh. I've got two disks in
>> it and would like to use raid1 with this system, but i'd like to get this
>> going preferably during or immediately after the install. My problem as i
>> see it is installing grub on to both hard disks, you have to get a shell
>> window during the install for that otherwise the box won't boot. Does
>> anyone have this working?
>> Thanks.
>> Dave.
>
> Yes. PXE + dhcp + pxegrub + tftp + installation image and initrd.
>
> Rebuilt grub to enable network support and to stuff in a default menu that
> makes it let you use grub over the serial terminal.
>
> If you must use the CD, then you need to pass something like
> 'console=ttyS0,9600' to the kernel.
>
> After installation, anaconda should create appropriate grub menu entries.
> If not, look at the sample below.
>
> serial --unit=0 --speed=9600
> terminal --timeout=2 serial console
>
> However, what do you mean by 'installing grub on to both disks, you have
> to get a shell window during the install'?
>
> Are you trying to get around the first disk fails and the system does not
> boot up any more problem? That is fixed on Centos 5/RHEL 5.
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