Re: BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

2014-09-02 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 08/31/14 21:27, Chris Murphy wrote: On Aug 28, 2014, at 12:37 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: ... Yes, that was my intention, raid1 for /boot and raid6 for / Accidentally I set /boot also to raid6 :) But that can be fixed. Or do n-way raid1, which will cause /boot to have as many copies

Re: BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

2014-08-31 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 28, 2014, at 12:37 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > On 08/28/14 20:21, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:10:54 -0700, >> Rick Stevens wrote: >>> >>> I think you need to reserve some small space on all the drives (and >>> with 3TB drives you can afford to sacrifice a f

Re: BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

2014-08-31 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 28, 2014, at 12:21 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > I think using raid 1 (with the 1.0 header format) can work well for that. > There can still grub issues with having a boot just work, but at least you > have the stuff you need available. GRUB2 can locate vmlinuz/initramfs on md/mdadm r

Re: BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

2014-08-31 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 28, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > Hi! > > I tried to set up a system using four 3TB disks as a raid6. The disks are > new, no old partitions laying around. I used a USB stick as install media > (Fedora 20 x86_64 Gnome Live). > > I chose manual partitioning to get ever

Re: BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

2014-08-29 Thread Peter Skensved
> > On my old system I use 1TB disks, with /boot as raid1, and grub > boot-loader installed on all disks. On that one I can boot the system > from any of disks. Which is quite handy. > > The problem here seem to be that due to the disks being large (larger > than 1TB) they are setup as GPT (GU

Re: BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

2014-08-28 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 08/28/14 20:21, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:10:54 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: I think you need to reserve some small space on all the drives (and with 3TB drives you can afford to sacrifice a few MB), use the remainder as your RAID, and let the system put the boot par

Re: BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

2014-08-28 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:10:54 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: I think you need to reserve some small space on all the drives (and with 3TB drives you can afford to sacrifice a few MB), use the remainder as your RAID, and let the system put the boot partition in that reserved space on the primary

Re: BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

2014-08-28 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/28/2014 10:48 AM, Lars E. Pettersson issued this missive: Hi! I tried to set up a system using four 3TB disks as a raid6. The disks are new, no old partitions laying around. I used a USB stick as install media (Fedora 20 x86_64 Gnome Live). I chose manual partitioning to get everything as

BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

2014-08-28 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
Hi! I tried to set up a system using four 3TB disks as a raid6. The disks are new, no old partitions laying around. I used a USB stick as install media (Fedora 20 x86_64 Gnome Live). I chose manual partitioning to get everything as I wanted. When this was ready I got the error message that I