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#26 2009-10-08 07:11:35

ColdSteel
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From: Lill' Town of Shildon
Registered: 2003-10-17
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Re: Installing Arch w/ RAID Config

I had this problem as well and must have reinstalled arch 4 times before finding what was missing (for me)

I ended up following the instructions on the wiki but it seems to be missing a final step.

Creating the raid with mdadm but don't bother mounting/formatting them, the latest installer detected them for me. Then install arch as normal using the raid partition(s). When you get to the point of configuring arch jump to another console (alt-f2 etc) and make sure you delete /mnt/etc/mdadm.conf and recreate it with :-

mdadm -D --scan >> /mnt/etc/mdadm.conf

Jump back to installer (alt-f1).

When you get to adding raid into mkinitcpio.conf also add mdadm right after raid.

HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata raid mdadm filesystems"

You should be good to go from then on. Say yes to installing grub to all drives in the detected array and reboot.

At least that worked for myself. roll


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#27 2009-10-08 07:23:50

fukawi2
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From: .vic.au
Registered: 2007-09-28
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Re: Installing Arch w/ RAID Config

ColdSteel wrote:

When you get to adding raid into mkinitcpio.conf also add mdadm right after raid.

HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata raid mdadm filesystems"

The MDADM hook replaces the RAID hook. They are mutually exclusive of each other hmm

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