I have always had to edit my /boot/grub/menu.lst I have /boot on md1 and root on md0 so my menu.lst looks like this: # (1) Arch Linux title Arch Linux [/boot/vmlinuz26] root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/array/root ro md=1,/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1,/dev/sdc1,/dev/sdd1 md=0,/dev/sda2,/dev/sdb2,/dev/sdc2,/dev/sdd2 initrd /kernel26.img Hope that helps, Jackson On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 09:26 -0400, Carlos Williams wrote: > I have been struggling with successfully installing Arch Linux on my > PC with just two S-ATA drives. I am using the LiveCD / Netinst > "2009.08". The only partition I want for RAID is simply /home. I have > two identical disks and am partition as follows: > > /dev/sda1 = 2048 (bootable) */boot* > /dev/sda2 = 40960 */* > /dev/sda3 = 102400 *RAID* > > /dev/sdb1 = 2048 *Swap* > /dev/sdb2 = 40960 */var* > /dev/sdb3 = 102400 *RAID* > > Then I create the RAID after I run "cfdisk" utility: > > mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3 > > Once that is done, I run "/arch/setup command from the comand prompt > and enter the system installer as normal. I have simply already > created my disks, all I do from the installer now is assign a file > system and mount point. It recognizes the RAID /dev/md0 partition I > created using mdadm utility. Everything is fine but when I install > Grub on /dev/sda and reboot the machine, I always fail to boot. I get > some strange error that tells me to type "Control-D" for maintenance > mode or something like that. If I do everything like I did above but > don't create a RAID partition, Arch installs perfect! > > What am I doing wrong? The Arch Wiki is not helping me at all. I have > spent a week trying to follow the Wiki with help from the forums and > to no avail I have given up. I can't see this being that hard. I think > I bork something up when I install Grub but I get no errors and it > tells me I installed Grub successfully on /dev/sda. > > http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=80776 > > Thanks for any help in getting me a working Arch Linux system with RAID.
