09-23-2014, 02:46 PM
Hi Scott,
Yes, I updated to the current BIOS last week.
Regarding the other two suggestions, I have the RAID installation guide and the AMD BIOS guide as well, been all over, up and down the ASRock support stuff.
I have given up on the BIOS RAID thing and am concentrating on the Linux SoftRAID stuff using mdadm. Repeated the mdadm stuff I did previously (link I posted a guide to), got my two disks in an array and let them sync (a 4 hour or so process), this was while booted from the live USB and preinstall.
BTW, If LL is installed on one of the disks, mdadm complains and will not proceed, guessing that is because the OS is currently using the disk or partition on it. That is why I used the live USB and performed mdadm installation steps BEFORE installing LL.
Okay, so now I am at the LL install beginning steps and trying to figure out how to get LL to install on logical drive raid1. The installer complains "No root file system defined. Please correct this in the partitioning menu." The current partition is a ext3 partition (I think) and marked for RAID (0xfd type using fdisk).
So I need to make two new (additional?) partitions, one for root and one for swap. Can anyone give me their partitions sizes for these on their LL installation? Use ext4? Preferably on a 2 TB drive (assuming this might make a difference). One posting I found says 10 Gb min for root and 2-4 Gb for swap. I seem to recall (from my many LL install attempts) something like 23.xx Gb for root (or was it 32.xx Gb?) and not sure for swap. Also wondering if I can do this when the current partition is using all available space. Will Gparted pull from the existing one to provide space for the two I need to create? Also, seem to recall that the partitions were numbered sda5 for the swap, not sure for the root, sda2? Root needs to be mounted as "/" I read.
I am feeling my way along in the dark here as a relatively newbie to Linux and LL but think I am on the right track. I just don't want to blow away my mdadm array in this process of getting the partitions right in order to proceed with the LL install. I have already proven (multiple times!) that just letting LL format the disk being installed to blows away the mdadm RAID1 setup I did before it. Just need to get the partitioning right, preserving the raid1 partition (although probably downsizing for the other two new partitions) and then install using the "something else" option.
Help!
Thanks and Regards,
Robert
Yes, I updated to the current BIOS last week.
Regarding the other two suggestions, I have the RAID installation guide and the AMD BIOS guide as well, been all over, up and down the ASRock support stuff.
I have given up on the BIOS RAID thing and am concentrating on the Linux SoftRAID stuff using mdadm. Repeated the mdadm stuff I did previously (link I posted a guide to), got my two disks in an array and let them sync (a 4 hour or so process), this was while booted from the live USB and preinstall.
BTW, If LL is installed on one of the disks, mdadm complains and will not proceed, guessing that is because the OS is currently using the disk or partition on it. That is why I used the live USB and performed mdadm installation steps BEFORE installing LL.
Okay, so now I am at the LL install beginning steps and trying to figure out how to get LL to install on logical drive raid1. The installer complains "No root file system defined. Please correct this in the partitioning menu." The current partition is a ext3 partition (I think) and marked for RAID (0xfd type using fdisk).
So I need to make two new (additional?) partitions, one for root and one for swap. Can anyone give me their partitions sizes for these on their LL installation? Use ext4? Preferably on a 2 TB drive (assuming this might make a difference). One posting I found says 10 Gb min for root and 2-4 Gb for swap. I seem to recall (from my many LL install attempts) something like 23.xx Gb for root (or was it 32.xx Gb?) and not sure for swap. Also wondering if I can do this when the current partition is using all available space. Will Gparted pull from the existing one to provide space for the two I need to create? Also, seem to recall that the partitions were numbered sda5 for the swap, not sure for the root, sda2? Root needs to be mounted as "/" I read.
I am feeling my way along in the dark here as a relatively newbie to Linux and LL but think I am on the right track. I just don't want to blow away my mdadm array in this process of getting the partitions right in order to proceed with the LL install. I have already proven (multiple times!) that just letting LL format the disk being installed to blows away the mdadm RAID1 setup I did before it. Just need to get the partitioning right, preserving the raid1 partition (although probably downsizing for the other two new partitions) and then install using the "something else" option.
Help!
Thanks and Regards,
Robert