Software RAID with Debian Installer
I am currently trying to set up software RAID while installing Sarge. I
have two hard drives, both with one partition "physical volume for RAID",
as well as a RAID 1 device that uses both. Everything goes fine until I
try to write the partition table on the RAID device. I get the following
errors:
[?] Partition disks
Warning!
The kernel was unable to re-read the partition table on /dev/md/0 (Invalid
argument). This means Linux won't know anything nothing about the
modifications you made until you reboot. You should reboot your computer
before doing anything with /dev/md/0.
If I choose <Continue> I see the following error on tty3:
/sbin/tune2fs: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/md/0p1
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
mke2fs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005)
Could not stat /dev/md/0p1 --- No such file or directory
The device apparently does not exist; did you specify it correctly?
Rebooting obviously does no good, as the RAID device is then gone.
Gritty details:
2 80 GB IDE drives
each drive has 1 partition:
primary
physical volume for RAID
bootable flag: on
size: 80.0 GB
1 RAID1 device:
RAID1
2 active devices
0 spare devices
both drives above are selected as the active devices
Update - things seem to be hit or miss. I was able to create a single ext3
partition on the RAID device, but when I went back and tried to configure
a "multi-user workstation", I got the same errors.
Is this a known issue? I haven't been able to find anything...
Luke
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