On Thursday 08 May 2008 14:58:55 Carlos F. Lange wrote:
On Wed May 7 2008 19:55:33 Brian K. White wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Carlos F. Lange" <carlos.lange@ualberta.ca> [...]
I was not able to pass the midpoint when I formatted the root partition (RAID1) with ext3, but it worked fine if I used Reiser on the same partition. I reported this as a bug here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=350992
Did you try to use Reiser on your partition containing /boot?
Huh? All my boxes boot from ext3 on software raid1. All my boxes have /boot on a small raid1 with ext3, all software raid, no fake-raid and any fake-raid options in the bios disabled.
That is interesting. I don't have many systems to test, but my experience was consistent on a few machines with 2 disks in RAID1.
My typical setup is anywhere from 4 to 12 identical drives, each with identical partitioning, 3 primary partitions: 1: 128M raid1 /boot ext3 2: 512M raid0 swap 3: remainder raid10 / reiser3
I almost always have to use the "boot installed system" option in the installer and manually edit /etc/grub.conf, /boot/grub/device.map, and /boot/grub/menu/lst, and then run grub --batch </etc/grub.conf
I don't use a separate partition for /boot, but I think the fact that you use Reiser for your other partition doesn't invalidate the comparison, because it is just /boot that counts when grub is trying to find a kernel. My configuration usually is: 1: 1GB swap (each disk, no RAID) 2: 16GB / RAID1 (reiser3) 3: rest /home RAID1 (ext3)
My installation stops in the middle saying it can't find an operating system, if I use ext3 in the root partition. Could it be because of the "stage2" option in the default grub.conf?
/etc/grub.conf: setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0,1) (hd0,1) quit
Thanks for the ideas of replicating grub in every drive and setting a backup boot pointer. I will use those.
-- Carlos FL "It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that." - G. H. Hardy
I'm curious about this subject. I tried to install 10.3 64bit onto intel ich7 in several way. What ever I did yast partitioned them to device mapper.... and the install failed out when it came to install the boot manager. Grub errors. All the files were correctly installed on the discs and the problem seemed to be entirely down to what the installer passed on to grub. Interestingly suse 10 installed perfectly on more or less the same set up but the discs weren't readable with more recent software. Knoppix 4.02 could deal with them perfectly. Knoppix 5.02 located them correctly but the data wasn't read correctly. I didn't intend to upgrade from 10 until 11 had been out for a while but cpu and board broke. The above resulted in hours and hours of fruitless effort. I went on to 10.3 because 10.0 repositories seemed to have dropped of the planet. Can the installer be made to work with an ich7 motherboard? Maybe I missed something. John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org