Bug#278496: Comments on RAID in partman
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 05:53:31AM -0400, Matthew P McGuire wrote:
>
> Overall the installtion of the box using the daily build was not a
> problem. I used the daily build to try out the RAID support recently
> added to partman. Everything worked absolutely great after I figured
> out one small catch with /boot partition. It appears that when using
> software RAID it is necessary to have the /boot part on at least one
> partition outside of the array so that grub or lilo can be installed.
> Without knowing this I went through a number of trial and error
> configurations until I had the array set up correctly. Initially I
> mistakenly tried to make the RAID array bootable using the interface.
> This failed on all partition attempts. It occurred to me that a boot
> block on the RAID didn't make sense, so it may be wise to remove the
> ability to flag the /dev/md devices as bootable. As a result the /boot
> partition was necessary. I would recommend adding a dialog that the
> /boot partition is necessary for root raid installations. This will
> help other new users of the RAID installation tools to avoid these
> mistakes.
>
You can boot from a RAID volume. I think there's currently a bug with
lilo-installer, where it doesn't quite get it right...
regards
Andrew
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