Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1495 mails)

[alpha096@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Because apart from dissecting the acronym - which in today's terms with
many varieties of R.A.I.D's, is no longer meaningful, I can create a
single volume from many partitions from many physical disks.

What I have not been able to do is create a RAID redundancy of the
boot+/ drive using different physical disk partitions and get the thing
to boot! ;-)

alpha096@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Sorry - I create the Mirrored during Installation selecting the 1
> physical drive as boot+root and its mirror on a different physical drive
> partition , however when I boot the PC from HDD after Install the PC
> does not boot anything - I not sure if this is an error in writing the
> boot-loader or I have stuffed up the Mirror
>
>
> Sorry  Per - OOP!
>
> Per Jessen wrote:
>   
> > alpha096@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >   
> >     
> > > I have not yet been able to Mirror my Boot+Root partitions despite
> > > formatting with the correct format and creating a mirror RAID - Is
> > > there anything special in creating a RAID (mirror) of the boot+root
> > > partitions of a HDD. 
> > >     
> > >       
> > Nope.  When you say you've "not yet been able to Mirror", what exactly
> > do you mean?  Coz' later on you say you have formatted and created a
> > RAID device. 
> >
> >   
> >     
> > > Is there something I have possible not done to correctly boot from a
> > > (RAID) Redundant boot+root drive on different physical media.
> > >     
> > >       
> > Boot loader config?
> >
> >   
> >     
> > > P.S Hate the new Partitioner in 11.1 - I saw nothing wrong with its
> > > form in 11.0, 
> > >     
> > >       
> > Yeah, same here.  It took me a while to find "reread partion maps" in
> > the new one.
> >
> >
> > /Per
> >
> >
> >   
> >