Re: SATA, RAID, A8N-E, 3800+ help
For the 31r1a to recognize your network, if it went as in my case, the
installer shouldhave proposed you with a list of network modules. You have
to choose something call nforether,I believe.
Thanks. the 31r1a installer works with the nForce2 network card 10/100
driver on my asus a8n-e.
So, I've installed about 6 different ways, utltimately arriving at some
critical error somewhere along the way.
I've read most of the faq/helps/howtos and archives that I could find, and I
still have the same problem.
I want to use RAID0 for the bulk of my file system. I would like to even
use RAID0 for my boot and swap partitions. I followed the instructions
outlined at
http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_software_raid?from=10&comments_per_page=10
and got further than ever before, but couldn't successfully install either
GRUB or LILO.
The article above suggests 4 raid partitions
/boot (50M)
/swap (1G)
/ (10G)
/var (the rest)
It is also written specifically for RAID1, though it implies that doing the
same for RAID0 would work. I'm worried because I'm unsure if the MBR is
'striped' in RAID 0, or if the MBR's of each of my 4 drives are exempt.
Regardless, I've tried it three ways:
case 1: /boot as a specific 50M partition, on the 1st SATA drive (ext3)
case 2: /boot as a RAID1 collection of the first 50M worth of all 4 SATA
drives (ext3).
case 3: /boot as a RAID0 collection of the first 50M worth of all 4 SATA
drives (ext3).
note: In all 3 cases, the remainder of the drive was configured as a
RAID0 array, and I used LVM (1 volume group) to created two logical volumes,
a 4G swap volume and the rest (to mount as /).
case 1: allowed me to complete installation, grub appeared to install okay,
but it doesn't boot, I just get a blank screen.
case 2: the partitioner seemed to change the partition types, and would
never let me install GRUB.
case 3: would never allow GRUB (or LILO) to install on the RAID0 array. It
kept indicating that status couldn't be reread from /dev/md/0. When I
rebooted, I would reconstruct the partitions as outlined in case 3 above,
and the same error would occur.
So, right now I have everything installed except an operational bootloader.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Keith
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