[CoLoCo] Hardy SoftRAID

[Leon Jaimes]

Well, didn't get very far with that.
I'm starting over from scratch.  Question; can I put the boot
partition on softraid?

On 5/13/08, Leon Jaimes <slyride at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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-
>>
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