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["Gaël Lams" <lamsgael@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all

I'm trying to set up a new machine with both the /boot partition and
the /root partition on a raid. During the installation, I created 4
partitions, sda1, sda2, sdb1, sd2, selecting do not format" and "0xFD
Linux raid". I then created the 2 raid, /dev/md0 with sda1 and sdb1
and /dev/md1 with sda2 and sdb2 (the reasoin I'm creating 2 raids is
that later I want to put my / on LVM and it's my understanding that
the /boot partition should not be put on LVM. Correct me if I'm
wrong).

When I booted the first time I got a kernel panic. I started the
installation again, made the same setup (with only one raid :-) modify
the boot loader configuration (which is Lilo by the way), indicating
the boot loader to be in /dev/md0  but got an L 99 99  when the
installation finished and the machine reboot.

I found enough information to be able to install a suse and then setup
the raid1 for my boot partition but I'm wondering whether someone got
it working directly during a new installation and, should it be the
case, any help/pointer would be greatly apreciated.

Thanks,

Gaël