RE: [SLE] SLES 9: Using RAID: Lilo/Grub Fails During Install

IIRC, I have read before that the /boot partition is supposed to be ext2 only, not ext3. - Richard -----Original Message----- From: Rhugga [mailto:rhugga@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 1:28 PM To: mmarseglia; suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] SLES 9: Using RAID: Lilo/Grub Fails During Install Some more info. When creating a raid device it tells you to create your partitions as either 0x83 or 0xFD (Linux Raid). I chose 0x83 and it did not work. (I am trying as we speak using 0XFD as the type) However, I have w/o a doubt used this in the past, including the very system I am working on now. (onboard LSI SCSI, 2x35 scsi-3 on same channel) I just contacted a buddy of mine that does alot of nitty gritty Linux development as he says he remembers something about a bug related to this. I think the SuSE installer should not say to create as either 0x83 or 0xFD, instead it should say 0xFD only. The reason why it works on some other distros is actually because of a bug, lol. (not sure on this, just hear-say from some linux developers I know) I'm not sure what the issue is, but I am reinstalling now trying the oxFD part type. -cc --- mmarseglia wrote:

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 11:47:56 -0800 (PST), Rhugga wrote:

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I am trying to install SLES 9 on a system with 2 36gb SCSI disks

with a RAID 1 config.

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First I create 6 partitions as follows:

On sda and sdb I create 3 partitions each as follows: Primary partition, Type 0X83, no mount point, size 100mb (for

/boot)

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Primary partition, Type 0x83, no mount point, size 1024mb (for swap) Primary partition, Type 0x83, no mount point, size 33gb (for /)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but when doing software RAID don't you create the partitions as type Linux RAID, not as Linux?

You've also created your swap partitions as type Linux instead of Linux Swap (type 82).

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