[opensuse] How to activate dmraid at bootup in oS 11.2?
Hello: I have a working openSUSE 11.2 system with kernel 2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop installed on a PATA hard drive. I also have 2 SATA hard-disks which I would like to use in a RAID1 mirror array using the motheboard's BIOS/Fake RAID. (nvidia raid). I have set up the RAID1 array in BIOS and MB's raid setup utility. When I boot oS 11.2 it does not activate the RAID array. I can manually run dmraid -a y which activates RAID devices and creates them in /dev/mapper/. My questions are: 1. How could I activate dmraid so that it would recognize and activate the RAID array/disks at boot? 2. Is it possible, and how, to move my oS 11.2 installation from the PATA disk to the RAID array so that the system could boot from the array? (I could do a clean install of oS 11.2 on the array, and it could boot and worked perfect, but I'd prefer to move my existing install to the array.) Thanks in advance, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Istvan Gabor wrote:
Hello:
I have a working openSUSE 11.2 system with kernel 2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop installed on a PATA hard drive. I also have 2 SATA hard-disks which I would like to use in a RAID1 mirror array using the motheboard's BIOS/Fake RAID. (nvidia raid). I have set up the RAID1 array in BIOS and MB's raid setup utility. When I boot oS 11.2 it does not activate the RAID array. I can manually run dmraid -a y which activates RAID devices and creates them in /dev/mapper/.
My questions are: 1. How could I activate dmraid so that it would recognize and activate the RAID array/disks at boot?
/etc/init.d/boot.dmraid should take care of of that - check that it is being run.
2. Is it possible, and how, to move my oS 11.2 installation from the PATA disk to the RAID array so that the system could boot from the array?
That's a simple matter of copying the files across and updating your lilo/grub config. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (8.3°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
2010. március 22. 21:58 napon Per Jessen <per@opensuse.org> írta:
Istvan Gabor wrote:
Hello:
I have a working openSUSE 11.2 system with kernel 2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop installed on a PATA hard drive. I also have 2 SATA hard-disks which I would like to use in a RAID1 mirror array using the motheboard's BIOS/Fake RAID. (nvidia raid). I have set up the RAID1 array in BIOS and MB's raid setup utility. When I boot oS 11.2 it does not activate the RAID array. I can manually run dmraid -a y which activates RAID devices and creates them in /dev/mapper/.
My questions are: 1. How could I activate dmraid so that it would recognize and activate the RAID array/disks at boot?
/etc/init.d/boot.dmraid should take care of of that - check that it is being run.
Indeed, it was not activated in /etc/init.d/boot.d/. I used insserv to activate it and it works now at boot.
2. Is it possible, and how, to move my oS 11.2 installation from the PATA disk to the RAID array so that the system could boot from the array?
That's a simple matter of copying the files across and updating your lilo/grub config.
I will try this later. Thank you, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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