gdisk raid

Trying to install Slackware 64 in a Dell Precision T1700. I'm having a lot of trouble. It is configured to use UEFI, and has two SDD of 256G each in RAID mode.

My first problem was booting the DVD in UEFI mode. Was getting an sector error from grub.

Found an alternative, created an USB Slackware installer.

Second problem, I see a /dev/md126 device which seems to be representation of the raid.

But when I try to save the edited partions, I get an error message saying that there was an error.

I also have windows 10 on this machine and tried other partition managers as partition wizard or easeus. Crap.

Easeus doesn't have swap option and wizard says falsely that formats are swap and ext4 but when I go back to cgdisk, it indicates basic data partition (windows). Slackware doesn't see them.

I did a lot of research and didn't find a solution yet. Some tips?

Could you boot a USB live distro and post the outputs of the commands:

lsblk -af
cat /proc/mdstat

Originally Posted by smallpond Could you boot a USB live distro and post the outputs of the commands: lsblk -af cat /proc/mdstat

Attached my print screens. Weird, the output says ext4 and swap, but Slackware is not able to see THEM. I see too a readonly information

The common arrangement is to partition two drives the same way and then make RAID volumes from corresponding partitions on each disk. Yours doesn't look like that. You appear to have made the RAID first, and then partitioned the RAID. I think lsblk may be confused by this. I don't know why it is showing each filesystem 3 times. At any rate, not many partition managers are likely to understand a partitioned RAID volume. It is also possible that you made the RAID from a partition on sdb (sdb[1]) and a whole drive (sda[0]). This is also likely to confuse things.

It is not a software raid. It is a hardware Raid. Configured in the BIOS. Windows had any problem creating partitions...

https://www.dell.com/support/article...ell-pc?lang=en

Maybe you should try -current.

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/ww...inux-paper.pdf

That is why your md126 shows up.

Originally Posted by jefro https://www.intel.com/content/dam/ww...inux-paper.pdf That is why your md126 shows up.

Thank you for the document. I'm reading it.

After some research, I just believe that I don't know a lot about RAID. In fact, there is three different RAID types:

1) Hardware RAID (which I thought was my type, but no...)
2) Software RAID (managed by OS)
3) Fake RAID (configured in the motherboard BIOS with Intel chipset in my case)

And I assume that is simply not possible according to this other post

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...e3-4175523446/