From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Rzy1l-000830-Ke for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:17:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A833E1A58; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:17:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DB25E1A33 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:16:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92CDE1B4037 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:16:22 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.66 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.66 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.749, BAYES_00=-1.9, FSL_RCVD_USER=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id JCDpqqGPxyaQ for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:16:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2FFD064273 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:16:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rzy0E-0001IK-Bm for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:16:06 +0100 Received: from rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com ([71.40.157.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:16:06 +0100 Received: from wireless by rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:16:06 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: james Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Raid install via ubuntu Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:15:57 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20120221200726.1489233f@digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 71.40.157.251 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120213 Firefox/10.0 SeaMonkey/2.7) X-Archives-Salt: e499d42c-c5cb-4abe-88c3-081865cb8ea3 X-Archives-Hash: 61c51e092a3e9d23b2dc4fc9d8ddd844 Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml Yes I tried this link and ended up with a system that would not boot. Something everyone but Neil is missing, is using the Ubuntu to setup the raid array to where the system will reboot. Then install Gentoo. That's why I cannot make any of the gentoo_ish install methods work. I've built dozens of gentoo systems, over the years, without many issues. I've spent way too much time trying to get a working raid1 install. Grub2, fstab examples, fdisk, 4K sector issues, gpt. It's all too screwy on gentoo install media and poorly documented. For peak sake, the livedvd-12 does not even have gptfdisk on it. So I'm going to install raid1 via ubuntu and then install gentoo over it. That way, the dual raid1 disks should be setup and the install will mostly mirror the handbook. Maybe that will work.... Maybe not, but, I'm done with Gentoo's lack of current (or poor) documentation on raid et all. That's the reason that grub2 is still masked: no current documentation. The handbook still says to use fdisk to prepare 4K sector hard drives, there is no GPT formatting tools; and too much out of date information. The doc folks just ignore the obvious; been down that path too. Hell, I've even to pay folks to just bring any of the numerous (onerous) raid install docs up to date; to no avail. thanks for the input. James