| Rich Freeman on 12 Sep 2016 07:44:05 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Cannot install grub |
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Eric H. Johnson <ejohnson@camalytics.com> wrote: > > I am going to try to install by breaking the volumes spanned In the BIOS and see if I can install to a single physical drive. > Keep in mind that some firmware tricks for implementing RAID-like capabilities like these are often not implemented entirely in hardware. That means they assume that the OS does things in a certain way. If the OS doesn't access the drives in the manner it is expecting, then things can break. If you want to span two drives I think it would be a LOT safer to just do it in LVM. With LVM you could probably mount a drive formatted 20 years ago without issue. Good luck getting those spanned drives to work if your motherboard needs replacement if you're using firmware tricks. The same is doubly-true of RAID. mdadm not only is robust with lots of backwards compatibility, but it is also a lot more flexible around reconfiguring the array while it is online. I have no idea what is going wrong, but I suspect that linux is simply incompatible with how your firmware is doing things. The vendor may not have even tested this feature under linux. -- Rich ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug