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

[Tobias Powalowski]

Am Mittwoch 13 Januar 2010 schrieb Alexander Duscheleit:
> 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
> 
As alternative you could use archboot iso. It will create such file and 
autoconfiguration of initcpio.
Iso files are located here:
ftp.archlinux.org/iso/archboot/

greetings
tpowa
-- 
Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org
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