[CoLoCo] Hardy SoftRAID

[Leon Jaimes]

So solved this, I had the fakeRAID enabled on my Mobo still.  So
redoing the config a bit so that /boot, swap and / are on RAID.

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Leon Jaimes <slyride at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>  I am trying to set up a SoftRAID configuration on my old machine and
>  keep running into issues with it.
>  Does anyone know of a good step by step guide?  The guides I've found
>  are older and may still apply, but I keep getting stuck.
>  The machine is an
>  AMD X2 with 2GB RAM and 4x300GB SATA II Seagate Barracudas.
>  1.  Boot off the ubuntu-8.04-alternate-i386.iso cd.
>  2.  When it gets to the partition set up I use manual partitioning and
>  set it up like so:
>  sda
>  >sda1 primary 246.7MB B F ext2 /boot
>  >sda2 primary 4.0GB K RAID
>  >sda3 primary 295.0GB K RAID
>  >pri/log 822.5MB FREE SPACE
>  sdb
>  >sdb1 primary 4.0GB K RAID
>  >sdb2 primary 295.0GB K RAID
>  >pri/log 1.1GB FREE SPACE
>  sdc
>  >sdc1 primary 4.0GB K RAID
>  >sdc2 primary 295.0GB K RAID
>  >pri/log 1.1GB FREE SPACE
>  sdd
>  >sdd1 primary 4.0GB K RAID
>  >sdd2 primary 295.0GB K RAID
>  >pri/log 1.1GB FREE SPACE
>  RAID 5 device # 0
>  >#1 885GB EXT3 /
>  RADI 5 device # 1
>  >#1 12GB swap
>
>  I set it up and it all looks fine until it get to the end and tries to
>  install grub, then it gets a fatal error.
>  Is there something obviously wrong with my setup?
>  Should I be using the AMD64 cd?
>
>  My end goal here is to have a file server so if anyone knows of a
>  better way to do this, let me know.
>  Thanks
>  L-
>