BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Thu Aug 28 18:21:13 UTC 2014


On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:10:54 -0700,
  Rick Stevens <ricks at alldigital.com> wrote:
>
>I think you need to reserve some small space on all the drives (and
>with 3TB drives you can afford to sacrifice a few MB), use the remainder
>as your RAID, and let the system put the boot partition in that reserved
>space on the primary drive (the one the BIOS sees as the boot drive).

I think using raid 1 (with the 1.0 header format) can work well for that. 
There can still grub issues with having a boot just work, but at least 
you have the stuff you need available.


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