On 10/13/2010 10:53 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote: > When installing Fedora on machine with -large- amount of drives (8-16), > I simply use a single sfdisk script to create the same partition table > on all drives. When dealing with smaller configurations (3-4 drives), > Anaconda is OK. (At least to me) > > As for MBR: I assume that like me, you create a small RAID1 for /boot > and RAIDX for the rest, hoping the first disk won't die on a DVD-less > machine :) > In-order to solve it (when I remember to do it :)), I simply dd 446 > bytes from the first drive to every other drive. Just curious: you script the creation of an identical partition table, and then you copy 446 bytes which specifically copies the MBR without the partition table which is in bytes 447-512. Why not just copy the entire 512 bytes to all the disks from the first one? I guess one reason might be if the disks did not have identical CHS geometry, which can happen for the identically sized disks. I have heard rumors that even a single model drives had been seen with different geometries in different firmware revisions. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
