Re: Software raid on Ultra 2
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 02:27:47PM +0100, Tom Taylor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to set up an Ultra 2 with s/ware raid 0 with the intent to
> set LVM on the top . I know that LVM supports stripping itself, but I
> would like to do it this way anyway.
>
> The machine is a dual Ultra 2 (2x 296MHz/2MB) with 1536MB RAM and 2x
> internal SCSI 9.1GB HDDs (and SCSI CDROM). I am netbooting 'Sarge'
> 2.6 current installer for sparc64. It seems to find all devices ok,
> and I can access my hdds from
> /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target[01]/lun0/disc.
>
> I am trying to set up both hdds with a 50MB partition at the start of
> the disk (will be the /boot on the first disk, and probably unused on
> the second) and the remainder of the disk as partition for riad (Type
> 0xfd iirc).
>
> When I use the installer (both in normal and expert mode), I cannot
> find an option to set the partition for use with raid (can find
It's there, but it can be easy to miss. I seem to remember having this
problem myself. You go through the screens, add the two partitions, and
then you are taken back to a screen that you've seen before, but what
you don't notice is at the bottom there is a new item for the raid
device. Once you select that you are good to go.
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