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From: Ramon van Alteren <ramon@××××××××××.nl>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] IBM x305 Hardware RAID
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:31:28
Message-Id: 200407151531.20572.ramon@vanalteren.nl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] IBM x305 Hardware RAID by Jose Gonzalez Gomez
1 Hi Jose,
2
3 On Tuesday 13 July 2004 18:36, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote:
4 > I'm about to install Gentoo on a system with an Adaptec3210S with a
5 > RAID5 (3 disks) + 1 hot spare. I just have made the partitions and
6 > copied the stage 3 to the disk with no problem so far. Anyway I have
7 > seen some threads in the Gentoo forums about problems related to GRUB
8 > and hardware RAID. Have you ever faced this?
9
10 Yep I did, was with a compaq server with a compaq SMART raid controller.
11 Detected easily enough but grub had trouble finding the master boot record on
12 the raid array. Ended up creating a devicemap, hand-editing that and
13 installing grub on the array based on those modifications.
14
15 Grtz Ramon
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