I've seen many tutorials on how to create raid10 with mdadm. But no one with how to put everything (/boot and swap) on the raid created and partition it accordingly.

It seems like I am in an infinite loop trying to do that.

boot with the live cd, install mdadm, created the array of five disks, all great. I had an array on /dev/md0.

used cfdisk,fdisk or parted to partition it... great!

Every of the above utilities created the partitions md0p1, md0p2 and so on. With one exception. those device are nowhere on dev! Only visible on the partition programs. The only md device on /dev is the raid device md0 but not the partitions I created.

partprobe does nothing, as it says I have to reboot to reread the partition information. But how the hell I am supposed to do that if I have not even install anything? With the next reboot, of course once again from the live cd, I have to start all over (withoud recreated the partitions), nothing...


Any help???

To boot on raid, your bootloader will have to be able to find the kernel (and probably an initrd); usually you will need some sort of firmware support.

Try approaching it in steps: raid 10 is ambitious, see if you can get raid 0 or 1 working first, you can put them together afterward. There are Slack specific instructions/threads for that...

I will give a try on your suggestion, you are the only one who gave me something to go a bit further on that. Although I am thinking of ordering a real raid card, I will try what you said first, create raid 1 and making it 10 later.

Can you provide me some links on the instructions you said (one or two would be enough), I couldn't find something, or can't see it, don't know...

Well, you can look at this:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...k-12.0-586440/
Or this
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d-root-691282/
Or this
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...Slackware+raid

The Slackware iso has Raid instructions as well, I think README_RAID.TXT or something like that