Trouble configuring LVM after RAID1 on Sarge -- help

[Siju George <sgeorge.ml@gmail.com>]

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





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