On 8/10/07, Art Fore
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 15:37 +0200, Stuart Murray-Smith wrote:
On 8/9/07, Art Fore
wrote: I have raid-1 setup as follows.
MD3, 20 GB as / (SDA2, SDC2) MD4, 267 GB as /home (SDA3, SDC3) Swap as SDA5 1 gb and SDC5 1 gb
Installation went fine on installation, but on reboot, it says disk has no operating system.
What did I do wrong and how can I fix it?
I'm going to guess that you've installed this onto SATA drives, and/or you've enabled RAID in your BIOS. RAID-1 works awesomely on PATA drives, but one {may|may not} get the above error message when installing to SATA on some of the 'less-expensive' mobo's. Things get tricky when one writes grub to the MBR, and need to swap out the primary drive.
You can also put swap into RAID as well. Consider two PATAs in parallel:
md0-swap-swap-{hda1|hdb1} md1-ext3-/boot-{hda2|hdb2} md2-ext3-/{hda3|hdb3}
What does:
cat /proc/mdstat
say?
BTW, mdadm automaticly rebuilds your RAID devices if you startup using 'Rescue' on the 10.2 DVD :-) Way cool!
No, raid is not enabled in bios, I am using the Suse software raid1. It was originally partitioned with Ubuntu, but on Suse installation, I set MD3 to / and MD4 to /home and formated them extt3.
The Ubuntu partitioning shouldn't be a problem, though I usually give new drives the once-over with: shred -n 0 /dev/[drive_to_be_shredded_here] -vz Are these PATA (old ATA) or SATA drives? S~ -- Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org