Michael Fischer wrote:
Just got a new box with 2 identical SATA drives.
Followed (as best as my poor eyes could see the screenshots) the advice given at
http://en.opensuse.org/How_to_install_openSUSE_on_software_RAID
(first time trying the RAID thing)
Everything pretty much went as expected, but the system would not reboot from the HD(s) at the midpoint of the install.
I then discovered the moment in "install" where one has the opportunity to do "select mode: other" and boot from installed system, and the installer picked up again just fine. (booting from /dev/md2)
So, all seems well until I try rebooting normally. The thing hangs just where you would expect grub to take over. Repeatedly. Trying through the installer with the above trick works again but... that's not really an acceptable system.
fdisk -l shows the following, but also emits a bunch of
Disk /dev/md0 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/md1 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/md2 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/md3 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Wonder what that means......
So you are using MD Raid (Linux Raid). This is different than the "bios" raid that David mentioned. In your case you don't need to set anything in the bios for this to work properly. You didn't mention what Raid level you are using, but from your drive info it looks like you are stetting up a Mirror on two partitions. This is what I did. There was much debate on this list (and many others that I googled over it) about putting swap on the mirror raid, but I wound up putting it on MD raid and it works well. The only thing about this is you will have to disable "resume" for swap to work. MD raid will not handle swap with "resume"at present, you have to set "noresume". (You will loose the ability to put your system in standby. Not an issue on my install). You could put swap on a non MD raid partition, but for the sake of ease of replacing a drive should one fail, I put it on the MD raid. I put all partitions of this install on MD raid, similar to yours, but I had a problem with /boot not working if it was on an extended partition. The only way I could get it to work was to make a primary partition for boot (two actually, 1 on each drive, the same size - make the partition first, format it with MD raid later). Then I made an extended partition to for all the other partitions. Then I set up each MD raid, boot on the primary partition, all the rest including swap on the separate extended partitions and all has been working well. I'm not sure if you have the option to make /boot on a primary, or at least a logical partition or not. Hope this helps. Jim F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org