RE: SATA, RAID, A8N-E, 3800+ help
I originally attempted to send this 29 Jan at 3:30PM, but it was
rejected by my mail relay server, so I'm attempting to resend to
provide a follow up on the thread.
>
> > Does your installation work, are you able to boot it by other means?
> > For example, try using a Grub-floppy, and see if that lets you boot.
>
> Thanks. It turns out I followed a similar path, but from a different
> source.
>
> Grub was hanging on install (I let it sit in a 50% complete state for
> about 8 hours to make sure...it was definately not doing what it was
> supposed to do).
>
> So I went to: http://xtronics.com/Reference/SATA-RAID-Debian.htm
>
> The instructions there (as everywhere else) don't necessarily say that
> RAID0 cannot be used for the boot partition, but I was guessing that
> was the problem. Since RAID0 is a stripe-set across multiple drives, I
> reasoned that it couldn't load a bootloader from them. To rectify this,
> I made my /boot mount be RAID1 rather than RAID0.
>
> When I did that, GRUB installed fine, but would not boot. So I followed
> the steps outlined in the web page above, notably the section where you
> start Grub (I did it from a floppy after invoking grub-floppy from an
> alternate console during one of my install attempts) and execute:
>
> root (hd0,0)
> setup (hd0)
> root (hd1,0)
> setup (hd1)
> ...
>
> In my case, I have 4 drives, so I continued through (hd3).
>
> After that grub successfully booted the system. So, now I'm on to
> making a chroot ia32 so I can get OpenOffice running. Ah, the joy :)
>
> - Keith
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