2012/10/15 Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi, > > > On 10/15/2012 10:41 AM, Joshua C. wrote: >> >> 2012/10/15 Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> On 10/15/2012 09:23 AM, Joshua C. wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> I have a broken fake raid on my machine (intel p67 chipset with one of >>>> the disks missing) and when trying to install F17 yesterday (with >>>> up-to-date respin done with pungi) I was greeted with the following >>>> message "disk sdXXX has bios raid information and..... blah..... is >>>> part of a broken raid, ignoring sdXXX". After ignoring the message >>>> later on I wasn't given the chance to use the spare disk. >>>> >>>> I thought of patching anaconda to ignore the bios-raid-information and >>>> to allow me to use the disk as I single HDD but I was wondering if >>>> there are any side effects out of this? >>> >>> >>> >>> Yes, the side effect of this is that if we wrongly detect an array as >>> being >>> broken and allow the user to use it, we will destroy the array, nuking >>> any >>> data on it. IOW ignoring this error is simply not an acceptable option. >>> >>> What you can do is remove the bios raid metadata from the disk by going >>> into a rescue shell on the system and run wipefs on the disk in question >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Hans >> >> >> I don't want to remove the bios data because this is the only way to >> rebild the raid when the next disk arrives. Currently I'm using the >> disk under Linux/Windows without any problems (in AHCI mode). Wipping >> the bios data will remove anything when later I build (re-build) the >> raid with the intel orom... >> >> Can I just install anaything on the second disk and then manually >> adjust the fstab file to automount the disk from the broken raid? > > > Assuming your raid array is a mirror, and that you won't be partitioning > it or something similar, just adding the existing /home partition to > your fstab yes that should work. Although anaconda will not let you > touch the mirror member during the install, if you've another disk, > putting Fedora 17 on that other disk should work fine, and after > that pointing fstab the disk will work. > > BUT *IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT* you MUST remove the entry from > fstab, before rebuilding the array, and then after the rebuild re-add > the entry put now pointing to the raid and not to the single disk, > otherwise Linux will keep using the single disk for your /home !!! > > Regards, > > Hans > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel This is what I ment. I'll report back after the installation. Thanks -- -- joshua -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
