On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 08:50 -0400, Peter Lauda wrote: > If anyone is listening.... > > I have read the howto's and all the FAQ's I can find. I am trying to do > the following and having zero success: > > An installed system needs to have a second disk setup with the first as > a raid 1 set. > > I have been able to boot from a CD and create the md0 md1 and md2 > devices. I cannot however, get any of these to mount afterwards. I > assume that mount doesn't know what type of fs these are and I'm not > seeing anything in the docs about what type I can use. > > Eventually this raid set needs to be able to boot. We use grub as the > boot loader. If anyone has done this or knows how and can offer any > assistance I thank you in advance. > > We are using 2.4.29 kernel in a home rolled package but have both > raidtools and mdadm tools available. > > Cheers! > --p Did you format the partitions after you created them? mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0 And read this link for your other question. http://www.linuxsa.org.au/mailing-list/2003-07/1270.html Googled in 0.36 seconds. Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html