i've had a lot of problems trying to setup a raid 1 partition, it's would only create a partition on one disk and not even touch the other one, plus countles other problems, I think RH sure screwed up raid this time, maybe they'll fix it by version 10. On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, JUSTIN GERRY wrote: > ???What am I missing?????? > > I've tried repeatedly to install 8.0 into a system that has 3 hard > drives for a software based RAID 5 setup. > > I am able to go through disk druid just fine... only when it tries to > install to the hard drives do I get this error: > > "The Kernel was unable to re-read the partition table on /dev/hdd > (device or resource busy). This means linux knows nothing about any > modifications you made. You should reboot your computer before doing > anything with /dev/hdd "...The only option at this point is "Ignore". > > I get this message on all three hard drives (HDA,HDD,HDC), I then have > to cycle through the errors 6 times (2 for each drive). Then the > installer will actually go through and act like its installing the > software. Once I reboot there is nothing found for a partition table. > > I want to set it up like this to get maximum redundancy. Apparently I > can not set up a /boot or /swap within a RAID 5 partition. > > RAID 5 /dev/MD0 > > HDA > /boot > /swap > /software RAID > > HDB > /free space (same size as /boot and swap on other drive) > /software RAID > > HDC > /free space (same size as /boot and swap on other drive) > /software RAID > > > > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
