On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 16:45 +1300, Richard Scobie wrote: >> Slightly off topic, but I was wondering if anyone knew how I could do an >> install of Fedora 9 WITHOUT it using dm RAID. >> >> I have done a number of md RAID installs of Fedora 9, but this >> particular machine has a Silicon Image controller that the Redhat >> installer obviously recognises and automatically proceeds to install >> using dmraid and I would prefer to use md. > > At the boot prompt, pass the nodmraid option. There are a number of > options available, you can get the entire list by installing anaconda, > then running anaconda --help on a working system. Any options the > kernel doesn't know just get passed on to anaconda. Is nodmraid enough? For some reason on a recent system I installed F10 Preview on I seemed to have to specify both nodmraid and nompath to get multipath from taking over... It would be a lot easier if you could choose which you wanted during install time instead of having to figure out boot parameters. -Dave -- 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
