From: Martin Wilck <mwilck@arcor.de>
To: Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using mdadm instead of dmraid for BIOS-RAID root volume
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 18:44:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <525ACE00.8090105@arcor.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52585642.6000005@pobox.com>
On 10/11/2013 09:49 PM, Brian Candler wrote:
> > Maybe, but your setup is pretty unusual. These MD arrays are "disks"
> for the installer, and thus would need to be partitioned. I believe it
> would work better that way. I have never tried an LVM PV on a whole disk.
>
> It wouldn't let me partition md125 either. It just did nothing when I
> clicked "Edit".
I assume that that has something to do with the pre-exisiting PV. But
that's just a guess. I have successfully installed CentOS on BIOS RAID
on several occasions. In any case, what you describe is "just" an
anaconda problem. Annoying of course, but you should get in touch with
anaconda people to solve it.
Martin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-13 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-08 12:17 Using mdadm instead of dmraid for BIOS-RAID root volume Brian Candler
2013-10-08 14:19 ` Brian Candler
2013-10-08 18:36 ` Martin Wilck
2013-10-10 8:11 ` Brian Candler
2013-10-11 13:03 ` Brian Candler
2013-10-11 18:13 ` Martin Wilck
2013-10-11 19:49 ` Brian Candler
2013-10-13 16:44 ` Martin Wilck [this message]
2013-10-13 18:12 ` Brian Candler
2013-10-08 14:37 ` Jes Sorensen
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