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Revision as of 19:10, 15 February 2016
, 19:10, 15 February 2016→Configuring RAID 1 (2/15/2016)
So we started partitioning from scratch, but with only two hard drives for a RAID1 array. In the first drive, there are three partitions: one 1 MB partition reserved for the bootloader, one 64 GB swap partition, and the rest of the drive as an ext4 partition for the filesystem. In the second drive, there are two partitions: one 1 MB partition reserved for the bootloader and the rest of the drive as an ext4 partition for the filesystem. Then we made two software RAID devices, both with one with 2 active devices and 0 spare devices. The first RAID device had both of the bootloader partitions as the active devices, and the second RAID device had both of the ext4 filesystem partitions as the active devices. Then we set the first RAID device to "use as ext4" and the mount as "/boot" and the second RAID device as "use as ext4" and the mount as "/" and then continued with the installation. This time, it failed to install the kernel.
I guessed that, because the 1 MB RAID device was made first, that the kernel tried to install itself to that device and failed. So I went back to the partitioner and set the first RAID device to "do not use" and then tried the installation process again. It prompted me a couple of times warning me that the old filesystem would be overwritten, but I continued the installation regardless.But then the GRUB boot loader failed, even if we tried not installing it to the master boot record (MBR) and installing it to "dev/md0" or installing it to "dev/md0_raid1"
