On Nov 4, 2005, at 4:38 PM, Gilles wrote:
During partitioning, I set up both software RAID1 and LVM. After partitioning, I tried to install LILO in the MBR on /dev/md0, but it didn't work. I tried advanced mode and tried /dev/mapper/vg-root as an installation target, but that was invalid, as well.I think that you have to use an actual disk or disk partition as target. At least, that's how I did it with "grub" where a disk is specified withsomething like "(hd0)" and a partition as "(hd0,0)". To have the loader available, even if one of the disks in the array fails, you just install it on every disks that composes "/dev/md0".
I thought I had read that grub didn't play well with sarge.Unfortunately, now I'm struggling even to get RAID1 set up the way I'd like, even without LVM.
Maybe this is about the methodology I'm using rather than a problem with the installer, although I would expect the installer to be a little more intuitive. I have a two-drive machine (two 250 GB drives), and I'd like to configure them in a RAID1 such that each disk is bootable.
I thought that I could just configure each disk with a single physical RAID volume partition and then create a software RAID in which I could create as many partitions as I want, including a /boot partition if need be.
But I'm running into issues with seeing the remainder of the disk space be flagged as "unusable" as soon as I create a partition in the RAID1.
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