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Re: raid questions

Subject: Re: raid questions
From: David Koski
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:04:25 -0800
On Monday 14 January 2008 05:30, Sean Carolan wrote:
> > If you install to a boot raid1 you don't have to do a thing as the
> > installer will make sure initrd.img has the needed drivers (raid1, md). 
> > If you modify an install to boot from a raid1 partition after the fact,
> > then you need to configure mkinitrd or whatever you use for creating
> > initrd.img.
>
> Thanks, I wasn't aware that you could do this.  I assume you must use
> the alternate installer to pull this off?  I tried to use the alternate
> installer for my workstation here, but it couldn't handle both RAID1 and
> LVM at the same time.  It choked when I tried to put LVM partitions on
> my RAID1 mirror, hanging for many minutes with no response.  I had to go
> with CentOS5 instead because the installer seems better suited to
> dealing with LVM.

Sorry, I don't know.  I always use "expert" mode and manual partitioning.

Regareds,
David Koski
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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