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http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5 has: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=64 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=64 Will the joker who put in this particular gem without any warnings or a clear explanation for those who need a clueby4 with regards to file systems please either remove the instructions or add a very c...

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5 has: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=64 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=64 Will the joker who put in this particular gem without any warnings or a clear explanation for those who need a clueby4 with regards to file systems please either remove the instructions or add a very c...

Hi, I've written two small howtos, and would like to contribute them to the CentOS Wiki. The first one is "How to install CentOS 5 on software partitionable mdadm RAID1", and the second one "How to repair a software mdadm RAID5 with two or more failed disks (if you know that information is still on the disks and readable)". I think that the first one should be somewhere

Does documentation exist describing how to convert a simple, single disk non-RAID CentOS 5 system to software RAID1 using the CentOS install CD/DVD as a rescue disk? (Assuming not) Is there a need for such? (Assuming need) I volunteer to produce it. -------------------- Ed Heron

...ek in the background! ) ... I have learn quite a bit by just lurking, but now I think I might have something to add ... I'm not sure the exact protocol or procedure for this and it's late in the evening and would like get this out, before I forgot or lose my cool ... Sorry ... First, in SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5, I would like to suggest a third option, to updating or running grub ... My motivation for a third option, is that hand typing or coping and paste line for line into grub, could lead to cross-eyed mistakes ... So, a simple copy and pasting of the complete bash mini script, would be a little less er...

Hello, I was wondering if someone could help me, I'm putting together a Server for personal use, I want to virtualize a few servers(mail, web, ssh) and use it as a NAS, but I have a question if I can use Multiple RAID Arrays using the following HW: Intel Xeon Quad Core X3430 ASUS P7F-M LGA 1156 - LSI MegaRAID(integrated) - HighPoint RocketRAID 2640x1 2 Hitachi 500GB HDDs 4 Hitachi 1TB HDDs

Hi everyone, I'm trying to install a XenServer on a server (ref:S5000PAL) http://www.intel.com/products/server/motherboards/s5000pal/s5000pal-overview.htm The installation failed because of lack of Raid driver, I found this out because I tried to install XenServer without raid and it worked great. I tried so many drivers, I don't know what to do I tried also this trick :

I have the CentOS 5.5 install DVD and trying to install with software RAID1 on two 2TB SATA drives. The CentOS install only sees one drive. This is a Supermicro motherboard with fakeraid turned off in bios. I tried the trick like so: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=64 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=64 Still no go. linux rescue console does see both sda and sdb. Whats

Hi, I have a server with 2 disks. Installed centos 5.9 with raid1. I created /dev/md0 to hold "/" and /dev/md1 for swap and nothing else. Grub is installed on /dev/md0. After the successful installation, the server does not boot. I don't see the boot loader . I see a blank cursor blinking. What have I done wrong? Thanks Paras.

Hi all, Installing 5.5 on a fresh system having an Intel RAID. My 2 drives are configured as a mirror within the Intel BIOS. When starting my install, Anaconda throws an exception. After a brief goog, I see one possible fix is - at the install prompt, type; linux text nodmraid This is fine and all but Centos sees 2 disks at this point rather then 1 which is what I thought the Intel RAID

Hi, I have HP DL 180 G6 2U Rack Server with HP Smart Array Controller Card B110i Onboard SATA Controller Chipset. This server has 4 * 500 GB SATA HDD have configured RAID 1+0 and it shows Single Logical Drive of 940 GB Hard Disk in the RAID BIOS. Have created driver diskette using dd command to enable this controller card to the CentOS 5.6 x86_64 arch and it shows HP LOGICAL VOLUME of size 940 GB

I have some suggested tweaks and changes to http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Install_On_Partitionable_RAID1 1. The user should be instructed to start rescue mode with networking in order to be able to retrieve the patch for mkinitrd. 2. The command to create /etc/mdadm.conf will result in an extra line "spares=1" while the array is still syncing. Adding " | head -1 " to the

Greetings - I am preparing to order a new desktop system for work. In general the new system will be a Dell Precision T3610 with two 3 TB drives. I plan on installing CentOS 7 as a KVM host, with virtual machines for Win 7 Pro and Linux Mint. I am looking for some advice or a good how-to on configuring software raid on the two drives, then using LVM for the host and virtual machines. I

...y you'll get the results you want by booting to a rescue CD (or switching to a shell on your install CD), setting up your soft-raid, then booting to your install CD, which will probe for your disk/soft-raid/lvm layout. steps for graphical approach (C5, so dated) - http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5 partitionable soft-raid - http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Install_On_Partitionable_RAID1 TLDP create soft-raid - http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html ** I've seen these first three, and will go back and look at the first one in more detail now as mentioned above. Arch Linux crea...