Re: Trouble configuring LVM after RAID1 on Sarge -- help
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 08:04, Siju George wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I did the following steps over and over.
>
> I have 2 80 GB hard disks
>
> During partitioning I
>
> 1) Partitioned both disks Identically into 3 partitions and marked
> them as physical volume for RAID. The partition sizes are 2GB, 300MB,
> and rest of the disk.
>
> 2) Then I configured RAID 1 on all partitions and I got 3 raid devices
> namely 0, 1, 2 ( as displayed in the nstaller ) with 2GB, 300MB and
> device 2 with the restof the disk space.
>
> 3) Now I make RAID device 0 as Swap
>
> 4) Then I make RAID device 1 as ext2 /boot
>
> 5) I make RAID device 2 as physical volume for LVM
>
> 6) I go to "Configure Logical Volume Manager" It says Partition table
> of RAID1 device 2 is changed and it needs to rewrite the partition
> table before configuring LVM. I say "YES"
>
> and it tells me
>
> The kernel was unale to re-read the partition table on /dev/md/2 (
> Invalid Argument )
>
> This means Linux won't know anything nothing about modification you
> made untill you reboot. you should reboot your computer before doing
> anything with /dev/md/2
>
>
> When I reboot the Rais Devices are gone and i go through the circle
> again and again???
>
> What is it that I am missing??? Could some one please point out??
>
> Thanksa lot to all of you for teaching me RAID :-) now its RAID + LVM
> that I am trying to learn :-)
>
> kind regards
>
> Siju
>
>
>
>
>
> 7)
hello Siju
here a link for settiny a raid 1 with the sarge installer, hope it can be of
help.
http://nepotismia.com/debian/raidinstall/
bye for now
peter colton
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