installing fedora core 4 on sada raid0

[deemurphy 0]

Where can I get information on installing fedora core 4 on a sada raid0. It is software raid. I already have windows XP and windows server 2003 installed with 4 other partitions. From what I can see fedora is only seeing the sda not the sdb. These are two 350 gig hard drives in striped 0.

 

Thank

Dee

[zenarcher 0]

I tried FC4 about a week ago...trying to do the same thing you are trying to do and had the same problem. I don't know the solution, but perhaps someone does know the answer. I went back to my SUSE 10.0 which installed SATA RAID0 very easily...and with no problems.

 

Regards,

zenarcher

[deemurphy 0]

Does any one else have any solutions or ideas how this can be done. Do I have to have a separate hard drive to install fedora on. Fedora never sees this as a striped raid 0.

 

I am in need of help.

 

Dee

[jerker_back 0]

Installing Fedora 4 on SATA raid 0...

 

I always used to have an old IDE disk as boot disk [C:] with a MSDOS bootsector , Linux grub bootsector etc - all handled by the Windows NT bootmanager. I removed it because I thought it was too noisy. I also moved my SCSI U160 raid to another machine, replaced it by a intel SATA raid 0 with 2 160GB SATA disks - leaving my machine with a single big 320GB SATA raid 0 disk. I lost some disk performance of course but gained space and hopefully lost some noise. As usual I made a small boot partition (C: with 500MB classic FAT16) at the beginning of the raid, SYS-ted with MSDOS then installed Windows 2003 on a second NTFS partition. So far I had no problem at all.

 

Basic disk layout:

 

----boot-------Windows-------Linux------------------Docs&data--

FAT 500MB | NTFS 30GB | Ext3 20GB | SwapFS | NTFS 270GB

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

When trying to install Fedora 4 all went well until diskpartition. I didn't dare the automatic partition and "DiskDruid" only recognized my disk as 2 empty SATA drives "sda" and "sdb" and asked if I wanted to erase all data on them. Pressing "NO" exits installation (didn't try "YES"!). Looking for a solution, RedHat simply says that BIOS-configured SATA-raids is not supported and suggests a UNIX soft raid instead. Some people says that loading "dmraid" during installtion (via shell command) will partly do the trick. GRUB bootloader seems not work with SATA-raids at all.

 

So, a solution for me would be to load dmraid at installation, install GRUB on my Ext3 partition (/, /boot etc) and copy the GRUB bootsector to my boot FAT partition to be handled by the NT bootmanager.

 

I will try the following commands before diskpartition:

rpm -i dmraid-1.0.0.rc8-FC4_5.i386.rpm

dmraid -ay -v

 

Any comments on this?

 

regards Jerker, Sweden

 

 

[jerker_back 0]

As expected I didn't succed.

When entering graphical mode I pressed CTRL-ALT-F2 to get a shell. Commands as the following:

 

cd /tmp

rpm -i --nodeps --nodocs /mnt/source/Fedora/RPMS/dmraid-1.0.0.rc8-FC4_5.i386.rpm

dmraid -ay -v

 

Success - my partitions was recognized.

 

Pressed CTRL-ALT-F7 to get back to graphical.

 

Still failure with Disk Druid

Anaconda seems to need to be run again

 

How to do that? Or how to run dmraid before Anaconda?

 

regards Jerker

 

 

[ylexus 0]

Originally posted by jerker_back:

Quote:

As expected I didn't succed.

When entering graphical mode I pressed CTRL-ALT-F2 to get a shell. Commands as the following:

 

cd /tmp

rpm -i --nodeps --nodocs /mnt/source/Fedora/RPMS/dmraid-1.0.0.rc8-FC4_5.i386.rpm

dmraid -ay -v

 

Success - my partitions was recognized.

 

Pressed CTRL-ALT-F7 to get back to graphical.

 

Still failure with Disk Druid

Anaconda seems to need to be run again

 

How to do that? Or how to run dmraid before Anaconda?

 

Hi, have you finally found the solution?

[zenarcher 0]

For whatever it's worth, I've messed with SATA RAID0 for months and months. I've tried every distro I could find, including FC4 and never managed to succeed. I tried using mdadm with Mandriva, with the help of about four people who knew what they were doing...and no luck.

 

Finally, I tried SUSE and now am using the third SUSE version with SATA RAID0, SUSE 10.0. There is nothing to setting up softraid with it...anyone could manage. I'm no tech giant with Linux and I can just about do the install with my eyes half closed.

 

I am running a Linux only system, so not sure about setting up with Windows and Linux on the same box, however.

 

Anyway, that's my experience and input with SATA RAID0. I love it...I love SUSE Linux...and haven't seen a distro I'd trade for.

 

Regards,

zenarcher