Software RAID setup at install...

[Martin Stone]

Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:42:31PM -0500, Martin Stone wrote:
> 
>>Mike Cisar wrote:
>>
>>>Have just attempted to do a clean install of FC1 and set up software RAID 1
>>>during the install process.  I have 2x 120Gig IDE drives which I want to
>>>RAID1 and then split into 3 partitions (/, /boot and swap).  I want /boot 
>>>to
>>>be the first partition (if it's not the first partition it ends up getting
>>>the error "system may not be bootable, blah, blah").  In a non-raid
>>>configuration this is not a problem, if I flat as EXT3 it seems to 
>>>recognize
>>>that /boot should be "first" and always shuffles it to the first partition
>>>(if I don't specify the partition as /boot it still seems to shuffle it off
>>>sometimes to a higher partition, though not always).  However, if I go and
>>>try to select SOFTWARE RAID as the partition type, the small partition 
>>>which
>>>would be boot once I set up the raid ends up getting pushed up to the 2nd 
>>>or
>>>3rd partition which then spits up the error message again.  
>>>
>>>So far the only solution I've found is to run the installer, partition the
>>>1st drive, cancel the install once partition table has been written, start
>>>the install again, partition the 2nd drive, cancel again and then start the
>>>install a 3rd time at which point I can change the existing partition types
>>>to Software RAID, raid the drives and complete the install.
>>>
>>>There must be an easier way, help :-)
>>
>>I'm in the same boat.  I may be alone in this, but I absolutely *hate* all 
>>these new-fangled partition twiddlers a la "Disk Druid".  What I do is boot 
>>from CD the first time with "linux rescue", partition using fdisk, and 
>>reboot - it's faster and less annoying.  You should be able to do something 
>>similar, except that you will have to fdisk twice, with a "raidstart" in 
>>between...
>>
>>I sure wish we could get at fdisk from the installer, though.
> 
> 
> Switch to console #2 (C-A-F2) and you get a shell. :)

I can't believe I didn't notice that!  I must've flipped through those VC's a 
thousand times and never noticed a bash staring me in the face.  Sheesh!

Thanks :-)