Fedora core 3: How to install RAID-1 system disk ?

From: G Dahler (gordon.dahler_at_spamex.com)
Date: 11/12/04

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    We are trying to set up fedora core 3 with a mirrored system disk to ensure
    better availability. This is a standard white box with 2 identical 36gb IDE
    drives (1 on each controller)

    We proceeded to install and when camt the time to create partitions, we
    created 4 raid partitions

    /dev/hda1 32 Gb ext3
    /dev/hda2 4 Gb swap

    /dev/hdb1 32 Gb ext3
    /dev/hdb2 4 gb swap

    We then created 2 raid 1 volumes 1 for /, 1 for SWAP

    The install then proceeded and completed. Upon rebooting the system we end
    up with a GRUB prompt and a dead system

    What's wrong ?

    If we do the same install but without using raid, the system boots just
    fine.

    Where can we get a good explanation of RAID-1 install and management. It's
    fine to have raid-1, but what happens when one of the drives fails ? It is
    not hot pluggable, do we simply shut down the system properly when we can
    allow downtime, replace the failed drive and reboot and the drive will
    sync/reconstruct automatically ?

    Thanks

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