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On Friday 31 July 2015 21:47:01 James wrote: |
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> Rich Freeman <rich0 <at> gentoo.org> writes: |
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> > > As many know, I have made many failed attempts to get btrfs in raid 1 |
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> > > working on gentoo, and have to this date, failed. |
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> > Interesting. I've never had any problems with it. I boot using |
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> > grub2+dracut with root on a single-device btrfs, and /usr on a |
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> > multi-device raid1 btrfs (and dracut mounts both). |
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> We should focus on Peter's needs, as this is his thread. |
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Well, thanks, but for the time being I've abandoned the attempt and restored |
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the original system (and lost the last two days' e-mails - what an oaf). |
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I read your advice about starting with one disk and adding the other later, |
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but then I contemplated going through all that yet again and risk it still not |
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booting, and I decided to stop and wait for some improvement in the code or |
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the documents. Besides, it seems from my worsening error rate that /anno |
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domini/ is taking its toll on my three remaining brain cells. |
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My suspicion is that the BIOS and chipset on this old Asus P7P55D motherboard |
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need some kind of special setup. |
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Thanks to all for your help - I'm sure to need it again! |
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Rgds |
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Peter |