On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Hal Martin <hal.martin at gmail.com> 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) > http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/md.txt > http://www.miquels.cistron.nl/raid/ > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447818 Please see this thread from June/2012 on the subject matter <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2012-June/126927.html> and the solution I found later on and posted in Oct/2012 -- <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2012-October/129654.html> I did install the latest dracut rpms per the bug reports listed in above but the fix is not 100% - for example if the second disk fails, I still get kernel panic The first hit with search string "centos partitionable raid" gives me this <http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Install_On_Partitionable_RAID1> which is already discussed in my June post. It does install if you follow the steps listed for release 6. In retrospect, I would suggest stay away from this method. Go the traditional route; carve up the two disks per your requirements and make the md devices for root, boot, home etc. HTH, -- Arun Khan