Re: [gentoo-user] how to configure raid

[El Nino]

pls see my below answers...

On 5/10/06, John Jolet <john@×××××.net> wrote:
>
> On May 10, 2006, at 12:44 AM, El Nino wrote:
>
> > dear list friends,
> >
> > i'm new to raid. i have a netfinity5000 server with 5 scsi+raid, 256mb
> > ram, p3 450mhz 1 processor. pl guide me to configure the raid from
> > gentoo.
> >
> > note: i trid to configure it using de server guide but it faild saying
> > 'need minimum 256mb ram. i don't know y, its already has 256mb
> > physical ram.
this netfinity5000 comes with a RAID card. it can  configure using IBM
Server Guide CD. so i bootd from that cd but its said not enough ram
'need 256mb'.

>
> I've got a nearly identical setup, except i've got the second proc,
> but 3 9 gig drives.
> Here's what I did: set up a 100 meg partition (bootable) on all 3
> drives.  set up a second partition for the rest of the space on all 3
> drives.  use mdadm to create a raid 1 (mirror) with /dev/sda1 and /
> dev/sdb1.  use mdadm to create a raid 5 with /dev/sda2, sdb2 and
> sdc2.  create a volume group with /dev/md1 (raid 5) as the pv.  then
> create an lv for root, one for swap, home, var and tmp, and usr.
> mount all that on /mnt/gentoo, then mount /dev/md0 on /boot.  after
> untarring the stage and snapshot and chrooting into the environment,
> use genkernel --lvm2 --dmraid --menuconfig --install all to create my
> kernel (genkernel follows the /usr/src/linux symlink, so make sure
> it's right).  the only other thing is to make sure all your scsi
> drivers are built into the kernel, not modules and make sure you put
> the initrd line in the grub.conf.  at what point is it telling you
> you don't have enough ram?  did you swapon your swap before chrooting?
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