Re: setting up CentOS 5 with Raid10

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On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:30:44AM -0400, Ruslan Sivak wrote:

> Thank you for the notes.  I followed them, but I'm still not having any 
> luck installing.  I go to shell and create the arrays and create the 
> config files, but when I switch back to anaconda, it doesn't detect 
> /dev/md10, only /dev/md11 and /dev/md12.  I can't create another raid 
> device in anaconda.  What am I doing wrong?  I tried setting up LVM when 
> i first installed this, but it failed to boot.

I don't believe you can boot from any device that includes RAID-0 in
its components.  This is because the kernel is what knows how to
drive a RAID-0 device, whereas the Grub loader knows how to do is
read linearly.  

At a bare minimum, your /boot must be non-RAID0 and non-LVM.

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