Ernesto Domato
2010-07-15 19:16:00 UTC
Hi list, I was trying to install a stable release of Debian on a new
server but I've found that the default kernel that comes with the
official installer doesn't recognize the SATA controller that the
motherboard has because it seems that is a board newer than the
kernel.
Then, I've booted the computer with a grml64 and it recognize well the
controller and the two SATA disks attached to it.
The two SATA disks are of the same type and size. I would like to use
Raid1 for redundancy and LVM2 to manipulate the space and add of
additional disks easily. I would also like to use XFS to test it since
for what I read it's better than reiserfs and ext3 for journaling and
performance.
So, could you help me with this?. Reading about grub2, it can
recognize RAID1, LVM and XFS partitions, but I don't know if it can do
it if I use them all together for the "boot" directory. So, on the
partition part, should I use a small (128Mb) RAID1+ext3 partition for
the "boot" directory containing the initrd file and then the rest with
RAID1+LVM+XFS?. How can I use grml to perform all this and have a
stable Debian working on this server with this configuration?.
Thanks for all.
Ernesto
server but I've found that the default kernel that comes with the
official installer doesn't recognize the SATA controller that the
motherboard has because it seems that is a board newer than the
kernel.
Then, I've booted the computer with a grml64 and it recognize well the
controller and the two SATA disks attached to it.
The two SATA disks are of the same type and size. I would like to use
Raid1 for redundancy and LVM2 to manipulate the space and add of
additional disks easily. I would also like to use XFS to test it since
for what I read it's better than reiserfs and ext3 for journaling and
performance.
So, could you help me with this?. Reading about grub2, it can
recognize RAID1, LVM and XFS partitions, but I don't know if it can do
it if I use them all together for the "boot" directory. So, on the
partition part, should I use a small (128Mb) RAID1+ext3 partition for
the "boot" directory containing the initrd file and then the rest with
RAID1+LVM+XFS?. How can I use grml to perform all this and have a
stable Debian working on this server with this configuration?.
Thanks for all.
Ernesto