Fedora 9 install using md RAID

Fedora 9 install using md RAID

[Richard Scobie]

Slightly off topic, but I was wondering if anyone knew how I could do an 
install of Fedora 9 WITHOUT it using dm RAID.

I have done a number of md RAID installs of Fedora 9, but this 
particular machine has a Silicon Image controller that the Redhat 
installer obviously recognises and automatically proceeds to install 
using dmraid and I would prefer to use md.

Regards,

Richard

Re: Fedora 9 install using md RAID

[Doug Ledford]

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On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 16:45 +1300, Richard Scobie wrote:
> Slightly off topic, but I was wondering if anyone knew how I could do an 
> install of Fedora 9 WITHOUT it using dm RAID.
> 
> I have done a number of md RAID installs of Fedora 9, but this 
> particular machine has a Silicon Image controller that the Redhat 
> installer obviously recognises and automatically proceeds to install 
> using dmraid and I would prefer to use md.

At the boot prompt, pass the nodmraid option.  There are a number of
options available, you can get the entire list by installing anaconda,
then running anaconda --help on a working system.  Any options the
kernel doesn't know just get passed on to anaconda.

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Re: Fedora 9 install using md RAID

[David Rees]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 16:45 +1300, Richard Scobie wrote:
>> Slightly off topic, but I was wondering if anyone knew how I could do an
>> install of Fedora 9 WITHOUT it using dm RAID.
>>
>> I have done a number of md RAID installs of Fedora 9, but this
>> particular machine has a Silicon Image controller that the Redhat
>> installer obviously recognises and automatically proceeds to install
>> using dmraid and I would prefer to use md.
>
> At the boot prompt, pass the nodmraid option.  There are a number of
> options available, you can get the entire list by installing anaconda,
> then running anaconda --help on a working system.  Any options the
> kernel doesn't know just get passed on to anaconda.

Is nodmraid enough? For some reason on a recent system I installed F10
Preview on I seemed to have to specify both nodmraid and nompath to
get multipath from taking over...

It would be a lot easier if you could choose which you wanted during
install time instead of having to figure out boot parameters.

-Dave

Re: Fedora 9 install using md RAID

[Doug Ledford]

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On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 10:26 -0800, David Rees wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 16:45 +1300, Richard Scobie wrote:
> >> Slightly off topic, but I was wondering if anyone knew how I could do an
> >> install of Fedora 9 WITHOUT it using dm RAID.
> >>
> >> I have done a number of md RAID installs of Fedora 9, but this
> >> particular machine has a Silicon Image controller that the Redhat
> >> installer obviously recognises and automatically proceeds to install
> >> using dmraid and I would prefer to use md.
> >
> > At the boot prompt, pass the nodmraid option.  There are a number of
> > options available, you can get the entire list by installing anaconda,
> > then running anaconda --help on a working system.  Any options the
> > kernel doesn't know just get passed on to anaconda.
> 
> Is nodmraid enough? For some reason on a recent system I installed F10
> Preview on I seemed to have to specify both nodmraid and nompath to
> get multipath from taking over...
> 
> It would be a lot easier if you could choose which you wanted during
> install time instead of having to figure out boot parameters.

That's a valid point.  Feel free to file an RFE against Anaconda in
Fedora's bugzilla (bugzilla.redhat.com).

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