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From: "A. Khattri" <ajai@××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 10 help
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 05:37:27
Message-Id: Pine.BSO.4.58.0510300119060.21717@ida.bway.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] RAID 10 help by Qiangning Hong
1 On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote:
2
3 > As grub cannot be setup on RAID0 (neither RAID 1+0 nor RAID 0+1), I have
4 > to create a four-partion RAID1 with /dev/sd[abcd]1 and mount it as /boot.
5 >
6 > Then I want both my / and /var are RAID10. I use the following schema:
7 >
8 > /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3 /dev/sdc3 /dev/sdd3
9 > | | | |
10 > +--(RAID1)---+ +---(RAID1)--+
11 > | |
12 > /dev/md3 /dev/md4
13 > | |
14 > +---------(RAID0)----------+
15 > |
16 > /dev/md5
17 >
18 > and mount /dev/md5 as /. The same as /dev/sd[abcd]4 for a /dev/md8 as /var.
19 >
20 > After mkraid, I followed the Gentoo Handbook and installed system, build
21 > all RAID and driver mapping options into kernel. But after reboot,
22 > kernel panic! The error message says it can not mount / on /dev/md5
23 > because it doesn't exist.
24
25 Is RAID support in your kernel?
26
27 Did you use mdadm to make the arrays?
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