Manual Paritioning with fdisk

[gwaugh at frontstreetnetworks.com (Gerald Waugh)]

On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 21:14 -0500, Paul wrote:
> > I read while searching for this problem that RHEL3 won't
> > boot from a RAID partition, is that true of RHEL4 / CentOS4?
> 
> I believe so ... I usually make a 100MB /boot partition on the first
> drive and a similar sized /boot2 partition on the second drive and once
> things are up & running and use dd to copy the boot loader on the second
> drive and copy the files from /boot to /boot2 every time I update the
> kernel.

Looks like your correct, if I make a small partition on each drive and
format it ext3, then make the rest of the partitions RAID it works OK.

That disk druid is a mess, when trying to partition two drives. It keeps
moving the dam partitions around. for example I partition hda like I
want then make hdc1 to match hda1, then try to make another partition to
match hda2, it will change the first partition to hdc2 and make the new
one hdc1...

Gerald