On Thu, 27 May 2004, Peter Levine wrote: > Thanks for the boot info. Apparently, Red Hat wrote to the MBR without > problem because when we disabled the Raid and broke the mirror, Red > Hat booted from the hard disk without problem. I guess it was just > something about the Raid that confused it about where to get the boot > info. > > When he originally installed Windows on the box (which we blew away > for the Red Hat install), he told me that he had to install a driver > for the Raid. I guess Linux would need something comparable so it will > boot correctly I missed the part about you installing on a RAID. RedHat uses LVM (Logical Volume Manager) for RAIDs. RedHat will install on RAIDs, it just usually takes a little more work to do so. The install documentation briefly talks about the process. Since RedHat pulled support for 9.0, all the information on there web site for it has also been pulled. One bit of good news is that I haven't noticed any major differences between RedHat 9.0 and the Enterprise versions that it now sells. So the documentation should still be useful. https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-raid-intro.html Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-lvm-intro.html Logical Volume Manager (LVM) https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-lvm.html LVM Configuration The last one is the what you want. The key to setting up RAID is making sure the Linux supports it. RedHat did leave up a partial Hardware Compatibility List for 9.0. Google is your friend here. http://www.redhat.com/software/rhl9_hcl.html Another issue is whether the installer for Linux includes support for the driver for your RAID. Some have to create custom boot disks for the installer in order to install on to some RAID devices. I'm not going to go into any more detail other than say that just because the Linux kernel supports the hardware doesn't necessarily mean it easy to install Linux on it. The Linux Documentation Project over half a dozen Howtos of varying ages on RAID in Linux from older stuff using raidtools to guides on specific hardware. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Antares-RAID-sparcLinux-HOWTO/index.html http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/ATA-RAID-HOWTO/index.html http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO.html http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DPT-Hardware-RAID.html http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Promise-RAID1-HOWTO/index.html http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Root-RAID-HOWTO.html http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html Sorry that there's no easy answer. dentonj -------------------------------------------------------------------- Cochise Linux Users Group Mailing List - cochiselinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx For more information: http://www.cochiselinux.org To unsubscribe: //www.freelists.org/list/cochiselinux
