Re: Fedora and Software Raid

From: Steve Wolfe (anx_at_codon.com)
Date: 10/21/05 

Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:38:38 -0600

> I whish to install FC 4 in a machine with to identical SCSI disks using
> software RAID (SRAID). I have tried all types of combination when creating
> partitions on the disks. But I'm not able to make something that FC4 will
> accept. Every time I try to click Next in the Disk Setup window, I get the
> message:
>
> You have not created a root partition (/), which is required for
> installation of Fedora Core.
>
> But I have created this as a part of the SRAID. If I create it as a
> non-software raid, I'm not able to clone sda to sdb.
>
> How is this suppose to work? I have checked the documents at
> fedora.redhat.com/doc, but nothing that tell me how this should be done.

  This doesn't sound like a problem with the software RAID, per se, but in
that you likely didn't tell the installer WHICH software array to use for
the root (/) partition.

steve

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