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I don't intend to use raid as I use partimage. But I would like to update my grub howto for those seeking help with their menu.lst.
I would like to know
1) your ide setup as primary or slave controller 1 to 4 etc
2) your sata has separtate controllers so
3) are you hardware (bios) or software raided?
4) either your working or non-working /etc/fstab
5) either your working or non-working menu.lst (/etc/grub.conf) file
6) either your working or non-working /boot/grub/device.map file
This may help others and with luck will grow over time with working and non-working solutions? I will start the ball rolling
some posts for IDEs have /etc/fstab entries /dev/hde and hdf or hdg
This I assume means
hde set as master
hdf set as slave on (first controller)
hdg set as master (second controller)
hdh set as slave.
In theory hde with hdf should still be (hd0) and (hd1) in grub speak.
spot the errors and hopefully build up the knowledge?
when we have some working examples I will edit my grub file howto and post the link
Bearing in mind that the above Gentoo user has success with grub and raid heres some bad news for those using Medley Raid..... Medley is a BIOS-assisted software RAID http://www.infowares.com/linux/
Apparently HARDWARE raid that need no software are seen as ONE drive by the bios.
This means if you have eg 2 sata as hardware raid and one scsi, and bios boot order is sata then scsi then scsi is (hd1) and not as I would have originally thought as (hd2)
I got my config working with Raid 0 (Using an nforce 4 chipset so it is software with bios authentification raid)
This is the howto I used with some modifications to adapt it to Suse, my config and without boot partition as I didn't want to do one : http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_...(Onboard)_RAID
My working menu.lst (failsafe isn't setted up correctly)
Code:
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on lun oct 3 08:55:51 TAHT 2005
color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,2)/boot/message
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title SUSE LINUX 10.0
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/mapper/nvidia_gdfbdadc3 vga=0x317 selinux=0 splash=silent
initrd /boot/initrdraid
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 10.0
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume selinux=0 edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd
(I use a patch you can have with the Tutorial I gave, and had to force the major and minor numbers of the linuxrc. Also recompile the kernel with nv sata driver and device mapper module as statically)
My working device.map : (looks weird as it has nothing specific with raid 0, i needed to force the number of sectors and other stuff to get it work without using a boot partition)
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