Sbs Bofh wrote:
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 that is the way I run 11.0 and it runs fine.
I don't understand why this doesn't work, why this has changed in 11.x since it worked so well up to 10.3, and what I should be doing instead?
I think you have either grub or BIOS issues. First if you are using any type of bios raid, check your BIOS and make sure you have your raid array set as bootable. (it can be hard to find, so check each bios page carefully). Next check grub. On 11.0 I have sda and sdb in RAID1 with /boot / and /home partitions. Here is how I am setup: 00:01 ecstasy:~> cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 0 488386584 sda 8 1 1 sda1 8 5 72229 sda5 8 6 2104483 sda6 8 7 20972826 sda7 8 8 465234336 sda8 8 16 488386584 sdb 8 17 1 sdb1 8 21 72229 sdb5 8 22 2104483 sdb6 8 23 20972826 sdb7 8 24 465234336 sdb8 8 32 488386584 sdc 8 33 20972826 sdc1 8 34 467411175 sdc2 253 0 488386583 dm-0 253 1 488384001 dm-1 253 2 72229 dm-2 253 3 2104483 dm-3 253 4 20972826 dm-4 253 5 465234336 dm-5 11:22 ecstasy:~> df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/nvidia_fdaacfde_part7 20G 15G 4.7G 76% / udev 2.0G 160K 2.0G 1% /dev /dev/mapper/nvidia_fdaacfde_part5 69M 19M 47M 29% /boot /dev/mapper/nvidia_fdaacfde_part8 437G 121G 294G 30% /home 11:23 ecstasy:~> sudo cat /boot/grub/menu.lst # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Wed Jan 21 23:25:10 CST 2009 default 0 timeout 6 gfxmenu (hd0,4)/message ##YaST - activate ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title openSUSE 11.0 - 2.6.25.20-0.1 root (hd0,4) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.20-0.1-default root=/dev/mapper/nvidia_fdaacfde_part7 resume=/dev/mapper/nvidia_fdaacfde_part6 splash=silent showopts vga=0x31a initrd /initrd-2.6.25.20-0.1-default ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.0 - 2.6.25.20-0.1 root (hd0,4) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.20-0.1-default root=/dev/mapper/nvidia_fdaacfde_part7 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume edd=off x11failsafe vga=0x31a initrd /initrd-2.6.25.20-0.1-default ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy### title Floppy rootnoverify (hd0,4) chainloader (fd0)+1 11:23 ecstasy:~> sudo cat /etc/grub.conf setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0) (hd0,4) quit -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org