Removing one drive from a RAID 1 setup?

Philip Rhoades phil at pricom.com.au
Wed Aug 26 22:55:11 UTC 2009


People,


Mick wrote:
> --- On Tue, 8/25/09, Bruno Wolff III <br... at wolff.to> wrote:
>>   Philip Rhoades <p... at pricom.com.au>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > If I remove this drive, is it straightforward to
>> continue using the
>> > remaining drive (sdd) with it's normal ext3 partition
>> and the data still
>> > intact?
>>
>> It might mess up grub. But otherwise it should work.
>>
>
> I kind of did this.
>
> I installed F11 to a raid-1 two sata drives.
> I could not get it to boot, it wanted a BIOS ID.
> My BIOS (MSI K9A2) lets me boot from raid, but it does not show up in the first
> screen.
> The one with IDE/SATA drives shown.
>
> Anyway I went into the BIOS and deleted the raid array.
> When I tried to install F11 the drives were NOT detected by anaconda.
>
> It seems that there are "ghost" dm partitions on them.
> Anaconda sees them and dies.
>
> I was able to install F10 and Mint, as well as XPx64, but not F11 or F12-alpha.
>
> Apparently this is a known bug in anaconda.
>
> So you may be able to fix up your drive and boot it, you most likely will not
> be able to install to it.
>
> Mick M.


Sorry, I should have made it clear sdc & sdd RAID 1 drives are mounted 
on /home, the MBR etc is on sda (/) - but all the extra info was 
interesting/useful anyway!

Thanks,

Phil.
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Philip Rhoades

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