[TriLUG] RAID related boot problems

[Randall Barlow]

Thanks to *NeddySeagoon *from Gentoo forums, I've been able to resolve 
my problem.  It turned out not to be RAID related at all: I made and 
mistake in configuring support for my IDE controller!

R

It is possible to boot from RAID if it's mirrored (not if it's 
striped!)  The BIOS doesn't need to know how to boot it I suppose 
because the MBR isn't RAIDed.  But things seem to work now, so phew!

R

Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Randall Barlow wrote:
>
>> Howdy, I'm trying a new install (since I hosed my last one) and I 
>> figured I'd give the RAID+LVM thing a go.  I followed the guide at 
>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml 
>> and everything seemed to have worked ok, but when I boot I get 3 
>> no-fun (TM) lines:
>
> You don't mention anything about addressing the problem of booting a 
> RAID/mirrored_disk machine...
>
> Do you know that the BIOS doesn't know what a raid device is and can't 
> boot off it? There is some trickery involved, but not having done it I 
> don't know how. To start you could set up your root partition on a 
> regular drive and get /usr and your other partitions working on RAID 
> first.
>
> Joe