[arch-general] Why Is My RAID Installing Failing?

Alexander Duscheleit jinks at archlinux.us
Wed Jan 13 13:57:29 EST 2010


On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:05:04 -0500
Carlos Williams <carloswill at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Alexander Duscheleit
> <jinks at archlinux.us> wrote:
> > I didn't know, where to put a proper reply in this thread, because
> > basically you are all doing the same mistake. I will just outline
> > the procedure here briefly and then explain where it all went
> > wrong :)
> >
> > 1 - cfdisk  # the settings in Carlos' 1st mail look sane
> > 2 - modprobe raid1
> > 3 - mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1
> > --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2 4 - /arch/setup # we save the
> > mdadm -D --scan for later !!!! 5 - before getting to the "Configure
> > System" part, open up another console (Alt-F2) and do
> >         mdadm -D --scan >> /mnt/etc/mdadm.conf
> >         (you have to do this before mkinitcpio runs
> >         in the "Configure" stage, but after the target
> >         system is mounted, so between "Install Packages"
> >         and "Configure System" should be fine)
> > 6 - continue the setup as described in OP (skip the cp -a part)
> 
> Alexander,
> 
> All I can say is THANK YOU! Seriously solved one of the most
> frustrating things for me. 
> [...]

Glad, I could help :)

I still think /arch/setup *should* generate this file itself if it
detects software raids in use for the target. The wiki even seems to
suggest, that it does.

Could some releng shine light on this, please?

Greetings,
	jinks


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