09-22-2014, 01:42 PM
Selecting LVM after setting up AMD BIOS RAID did not work, or at least errors out and prevents proceeding, will post that error.
The mdadm did not work (at least yet), got it all going with the live USB (and waited the 4-5 hours for the sync) but when I went and did the install of the OS, it broke the SW raid and the OS complained about a "recursive partition" or some such on both disks. If I end up having to go with mdadm RAID, I guess the next thing to try is to install the OS and then do the many commands (in the link I posted previously) to get mdadm going on top of the installed OS. I did try this initially but had permission problems. When I encountered this I thought it was because the partition was in use by the OS, thinking now it might be a sudo thing or require root access (which I had to do for mdadm at some point during the process with the live USB, I forget what specifically).
Still hoping there is a way to make the BIOS RAID work but I am out of ideas for things to try. The OS install overwrites the partitioning the BIOS RAID creates which breaks the array.
Frustrating.
The mdadm did not work (at least yet), got it all going with the live USB (and waited the 4-5 hours for the sync) but when I went and did the install of the OS, it broke the SW raid and the OS complained about a "recursive partition" or some such on both disks. If I end up having to go with mdadm RAID, I guess the next thing to try is to install the OS and then do the many commands (in the link I posted previously) to get mdadm going on top of the installed OS. I did try this initially but had permission problems. When I encountered this I thought it was because the partition was in use by the OS, thinking now it might be a sudo thing or require root access (which I had to do for mdadm at some point during the process with the live USB, I forget what specifically).
Still hoping there is a way to make the BIOS RAID work but I am out of ideas for things to try. The OS install overwrites the partitioning the BIOS RAID creates which breaks the array.
Frustrating.