Re: Intel ICH5R fake raid installation
Fábio Dias wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>I hope this is the right place for doing that, and I didn't find any
>good information about my problem, so here I go.
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>I have an ASUS P4P800 SE mobo, with ICH5R south bridge, 2 SATA 80Gb
>hard drives in raid 0 config. In windows, everything is OK, but any
>linux installation see these disks as one. All seems two independent
>unused disks.
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>I read something about dmraid tool, and cross installing of debian
>(appendix of installation man). Does not sound so tricky, but I don't
>know how to make a cross install on this fake raid system. I don't
>know if it will work when I reboot my machine.
>
>Anyone have some idea?
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Fábio Dias
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You can create RAID arrays in woody installer, I've done it on the same
chipset The MBR should be installed in the primary hardrive. The only
problem is the default Debian initrd images tend not to load raid
drivers at boot, so you'll need to regenerate a RAID capable initrd
image to use with the default kernel. Also, try to keep /boot on a
non-raid partition, lilo and grub tend not to recognize raid arrays.
Makes it harder to load initrd images :)
Stefan
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