[ale] SW Raid
Jonathan Glass IBB
jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu
Wed Mar 17 21:29:10 EST 2004
Hmm. Good question. I wonder if the BIOS will boot off the second drive
automatically? I'll have to pull a drive tomorrow and see what
happens. I'll let you know tomorrow afternoon. ;)
Jonathan Glass
On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 21:21, Chris Fowler wrote:
> How does grub or lilo behave with this setup if a drive fails? Does the
> system still boot. I assume you need a /boot that is not raid?
>
> On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 21:19, Jonathan Glass (IBB) wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 21:07, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > > I have a question on installing Fedora Core 1 with Software Raid
> > > I have a server with 2 128GB drives. What is the best way to partition
> > > the drives so I can do Raid level 1 via the MD driver?
> > >
> > > Can root be on a Raid 1?
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > >
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> > Sure. Why not? Just create the 2 Software raid partitions of whatever
> > size (I usually do one at a time so I don't forget which partition I
> > want going where), then click the software raid button and create the /
> > partition. Voila!
> >
> > I do this for EVERY partition on my boxes that lack hardware RAID cards.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Jonathan G.
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