On 07/11/12 15:10, Hal Martin wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to install CentOS 6.3 to an mdadm partitionable array and > not having any luck. > > The installer only allows me to create one file system per md device, > or specify the md device as a LVM physical volume. I don't want to do > either, I want to create one md device and create multiple partitions > on top of the md device. > > I thought that perhaps the installer was preventing me from doing this > because it wasn't possible to boot off a partitionable mdadm array, > but through googling I don't believe this is the case. (See links at > the bottom of this email) > > I've tried the graphical installer and the text-mode installer, and > neither gives me the ability to install to a partitionable mdadm > array. > > Even more annoying is that if I manually create such an array, > partition it and create file systems, the installer will stop the > array when starting the partitioning utility, preventing me from > installing to the partitions I created. > > Is there an advanced mode in the installer that I can force it to > install to a partitionable md device, or is that not an option? I'd > like to avoid having multiple md devices on the same physical drives, > and unfortunately the application I'm installing doesn't place nicely > with LVM. > > Thanks, > Hal Hello Hal, AFAIK installing on to partitionable md is a hack that is not supported; it's cool, but is not supported by upstream. And when it breaks I hear it can be quite unpleasant to fix. What are your requirements exactly? Maybe we can advise an alternative partitioning etc.