[arch-general] Installing Arch Linux w/ RAID

Phillip Smith arch-general at fukawi2.nl
Mon Oct 26 18:04:32 EDT 2009


2009/10/27 Carlos Williams <carloswill at gmail.com>

> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:06 PM, toomanymirrors
>
> When you're in the main installer window of the
> Arch Linux CD, you you skip the "Install Bootloader" option or do you
> select it? The Wiki indicates that I should skip it and do it manually
> however my /boot and / partitions are not under RAID. Just my /home
> partition is. I would think I should be able to use it, no?
>
> Even when I simply try to install Arch with a separate RAID1 /home
> partition, I have no luck.
>

I've installed on RAID several times in the last week (diagnosing hardware
problems!) and everytime after I installed, I had to boot the LiveCD and
re-run `mkinitcpio -p kernel26` before the system would boot...


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