Hello, On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 04:14:36PM -0300, Jozeph Brasil wrote: > What is necessary to install Debian with RAID0 partittion? > I have tried all possible solutions to do that and don't belive > that Debian have not in the native installer a simple solution to > install debian under raid0. > I'm migrating all my systems to Debian for belive it. I think > today that debian is the best linux dist. > I have tried the blade (lar1440.bin) and the XFS SGI installer > but without success. :( > When I boot-CD with bf24, what I do: > extdisk (lar1440.bin) > mdadm --create /dev/md0 --verbose --level=0 --raid-devices=2 > /dev/hda3 /dev/hdb1 > mkreiserfs /dev/md0 > mount -t reiserfs /dev/md0 /target > All right, I install debian base system in /target, but I can't > boot the system... > I have tried recompile kernel, but lilo warnings about RAID1 > only. > I tried to mkinitrd with necessary kernel modules, but there is > no possible because I have booted from CD. > What's necessary to done that installation? > I have Conectiva Linux 8 running exactly with that scheme > partittion, because CL8 have RAID support on installation. This seems very unlikely; I've asked around, and everyone confirms that neither LILO nor GRUB supports booting from a RAID0 set. Even if it did, I wouldn't be willing to trust my system to such a feature -- that's far too much complexity to put in a bootloader. It's much more likely that you had a separate /boot partition for your kernel that was being used by LILO, and simply didn't realize it. That is still, to my knowledge, the recommended way to boot Linux on a machine with software RAID0. > Why the Debian's Delelopers have not included on Debian-Installer > support for RAID and LVM? Actually they are necessary tools on > day-by-day. The next incarnation of the Debian installer (which is what this mailing list is for) seems to have some support for LVM/EVMS. For woody, the steps you describe above seem very correct, except for the need for a separate /boot partition. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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