Re: [opensuse] RAID1 boot problems

Sbs Bofh wrote:

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Per Jessen wrote:

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Sbs Bofh wrote:

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For years I've been setting up (open)suse machines with three (or more) partitions - each one using software RAID1, all partitions created and RAID set up during the installation. Has worked (at least up to 10.3) like a dream...

/dev/md0 as /boot, /dev/md1 as /, and /dev/md2 as swap is(was) my current standard.

Is it true that you simply can't do this (at least the /boot bit) with opensuse 11.x?

No, it works fine - with lilo at least.

I'm starting with two blank hard drives and the openSUSE-11.1-NET-x86_64 install CD.

Please can someone give me a vaguely step-by-step process of how to achieve my "/dev/md0 as /boot, /dev/md1 as /, and /dev/md2 as swap", the configuration I've been using sucessfully for so many years with previous version of (open)suse.

If you use Grub, install openSUSE as you usually do, but instruct Grub to be installed on MBR. After the install process is complete, openSUSE WILL boot. However it only continue to do so only if /dev/sda exists. In order to correct it, do the following as root grub device (hd0) /dev/sda root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) device (hd0) /dev/sdb root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) After this you should be working as you've always been.

Thanks,

jim

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