09-21-2014, 10:58 PM
Made good progress with mdadm after booting from live usb image and following the guide I linked to. Volumes are syncing now (long process). The fstab and mdadm.conf updates would not save, guessing because those files were active with the OS and changes to them could not be saved therefore. Saved copies to the desktop in hopes of ultimately replacing them on the final LL install.
However, did some more research and am not convinced that the A88X Bolton D4 RAID implementation is not a hardware based RAID and therefore more desirable/better performing than Linux soft RAID using mdadm. To that end, wondering if a LL install over the AMD BIOS RAID would work if I used Linux LVM. No clue but I am searching for the right answer (best performance in a RAID1 implementation). As I posted previously, RAID did not work otherwise, the LL install broke the array/partitioning done with AMD BIOS RAID.
Would love some input from others who have successfully navigated this precarious path but guess I am doing alright with researching and trying things based on what I find.
Regards,
Robert
However, did some more research and am not convinced that the A88X Bolton D4 RAID implementation is not a hardware based RAID and therefore more desirable/better performing than Linux soft RAID using mdadm. To that end, wondering if a LL install over the AMD BIOS RAID would work if I used Linux LVM. No clue but I am searching for the right answer (best performance in a RAID1 implementation). As I posted previously, RAID did not work otherwise, the LL install broke the array/partitioning done with AMD BIOS RAID.
Would love some input from others who have successfully navigated this precarious path but guess I am doing alright with researching and trying things based on what I find.
Regards,
Robert