I had one h**l of a time doing this over the weekend.
What finally worked for me was creating LOGICAL partitions on each drive
and setting them as used for RAID volume devices.
This gave me /dev/sda5, /dev/sdb5 etc etc.
When grub did it's install, it added all the /dev/sda1 etc partitions
and rebooted fine.
When I tried primary partitions, grub would just fail and I'd have to
restart the whole install process over.
NOTE: when booting from the install cd i had to [tab] the 'install'
menu entry and add "dmraid=true".
Then after the initial install, it would still fail to boot.
Back to the install cd, choose 'rescue', [tab] and add 'dmraid=true'
again. Then get thee to a shell and 'grub-install --recheck /dev/sdaX'
for each partition.
On 03/06/2013 01:37 PM, Dick Thomas wrote:
What is the best way to setup a raid 5 array (4* 2TB drives)
should I make raid 5 for my system and /home
then raid 0 or 1 for the boot, or should I buy a 5th drive for
system/boot and install in the standard way?
as this is my 1st time on debian and not sure what would be best
Dick Thomas
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