At Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:53:45 -0600 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I have followed the procedure on the Centos page: > > > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID > > Is there a how too for CentOS 4.x? It shouldn't be much different than the 5.x howto. > > > My setup is slightly different. I am using two partitions, / and /home. > > I have setup swap as a file, /home/swapfile. > > > > My hard drives are 500Gig sda and sdb. > > > > In modifying the instructions for initializing  sdb I have: > > > > used /dev/md0 for / (sdb1) > > used /dev/md1 for /home (sdb2) > > > > In section 3.6 > > > > The line: > > mount /dev/RaidSys/Root /mnt/root.new > > > > was changed to > > mount /dev/md0 /mnt/root.new > > > > Everything seems to go well until I get to section 4.4.1/4.4.2 Install grub. > > The commands for installing grub show success but when I edit the > > /mnt/root.new/boot/grub/menu.lst > > the contents still point to hd0 not hd1. > > > > In section 4.4.4 I am not sure how the following should be changed: > > umount /mnt/boot.new > > mount /dev/md0 /mnt/root.new/boot > > > > The umount is not needed in my case but should the second line be: > > mount /dev/md0 /mnt/root.new > > > > Other info I have found includes creating a /etc/mdadm.conf. This is not > > referred to in the instructions. > > > > Are the changes I have made correct? Am I missing any other changes? > > > > Thanks for any help, > > > > David > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments
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