Re: [gentoo-user] Help with nvidia fake raid.

[Rumen Yotov]

Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I have been trying for 5 days now to install a gentoo system on a
> nvidia mother board with fake raid, I already have a windows system on
> the machine that needs the raid and I want to install gentoo on it.
>
> I have followed instructions on
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_with_NVRAID_using_dmraid
> I was succeeded on installing gentoo base system and grub :-), but,
> when I boot the systems ask for real_root /dev/mapper/nv_xxxx device
>
> I had try the hard way, open a shell when it ask for real_root and on
> /dev/mapper is just control.
>
> I had try with genkernel and on the same situation on /dev/mapper/ has
> control and my disk, but none of the partitions.
>
> I am so close of making this work, but is really frustrating get stuck
> in something like that for so long.
>
> Thanks for attention, Allan
>
Hi,
No experience with RAID but do you have a separate /boot partition.
Assume you're also using an initrd (with genkernel ... --dmraid ...).
HTH.Rumen