Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: Jose Gonzalez Gomez <jgonzalez@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] IBM x305 Hardware RAID
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:31:46
Message-Id: 40F6A35C.8020506@opentechnet.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] IBM x305 Hardware RAID by Ramon van Alteren
1 Ramon van Alteren wrote:
2
3 >Hi Jose,
4 >
5 >On Tuesday 13 July 2004 18:36, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote:
6 >
7 >
8 >> I'm about to install Gentoo on a system with an Adaptec3210S with a
9 >>RAID5 (3 disks) + 1 hot spare. I just have made the partitions and
10 >>copied the stage 3 to the disk with no problem so far. Anyway I have
11 >>seen some threads in the Gentoo forums about problems related to GRUB
12 >>and hardware RAID. Have you ever faced this?
13 >>
14 >>
15 >
16 >Yep I did, was with a compaq server with a compaq SMART raid controller.
17 >Detected easily enough but grub had trouble finding the master boot record on
18 >the raid array. Ended up creating a devicemap, hand-editing that and
19 >installing grub on the array based on those modifications.
20 >
21 >Grtz Ramon
22 >
23 >
24 Fortunately this wasn't the case. GRUB went flawlessly in my setup.
25 Thanks anyway.
26
27 Regards
28 Jose