Debian installation and then install proxmox ve or create raid after. The debian squeeze installer allows for raid setup, but then tries to install grub2 to devsda instead of devmd0. Since i have more than 3 hdd in my machine ive input 4 active devices in software raid configuration with zero spare devices. I do run raid 0 for debian lenny and i have found the safest and easiest way to do it is to load a 3 drive up as boot and mbr and then the kernel will load the required modules to see the raid card. It is a very general answer, as you havent really provided much details on the actual setup. Is there a way to disable software raid on linux after a fresh installation.
Even so, you will regret it when you end up loosing massive amounts of data from using soft raid. Debian lenny with ich6r controler raid 1 sata drives user name. Setting up raid on an existing debianubuntu installation. Simply boot on the cd, and choose rescue mode, then after the usual di prompt, you get. Nov 19, 2010 how to setup software raid in debian ubuntu november 19, 2010 awang apandy 2 comments this time around, i will show you how to configure the software raid using debian. This howto describes how to use software raid under linux. Creating software raid0 stripe on two devices using. If you need more information about lvm, you might be interested to my lvm micro howto. In the interest of making it more available to new users, i have undertaken the effort to consolidate the pertinent information from that thread, here. In the main partitioning menu select configure software raid. The yast partitioner is awesome for lvm and raid setup. Nov 11, 2017 lvm stands for logical volume manager. Simply boot on the cd, and choose rescue mode, then after the. Home how to set up software raid1 on a running lvm system incl.
How to configure a soft raid1 using debians wheezy b4. Create the partitions you want to include in your raid set. How to set up software raid1 on a running system incl. The raid tools are included in almost every major linux distribution. So we decided to use a software raid 1 for the two disks. This guide explains how to set up software raid1 on an already running debian lenny system. Write changes to the partition table when it asks you to.
How to set up software raid1 on a running lvm system incl. This document explains how to set up debian gnulinux on a computer with your root partition on a raid volume managed with lvm. Remove one of the diskpartitions from the raid device, putting it in a degraded mode. How to create a software raid 5 in linux mint ubuntu.
The client system debian lenny as well will be able to access the storage as if it was a. This can be done directly from the official etch dvd, without having to install the os on a classical partition and then move it to a lv residing on raid. How to configure software raid1 during installation process. Raid can be created, if there are minimum 2 number of disk connected to a raid controller and make a logical volume or more drives can be added in an array according to defined raid levels.
Looks like somehow debian installer screws up the partition table. This is the raid layer that is the standard in linux2. I parted the 65gb for debian, had a very similar setup almost identical as. Debianon is an effort to document how to install, configure and use debian on some specific hardware. Oct 04, 20 how to configure software raid1 during installation process by milosz galazka on october 4, 20 and tagged with debian, system installation, system management, software raid recently i needed to setup software raid1 during debian installation process. The latest minor update, called a point release, is version 9. This document contains installation instructions for the debian gnulinux 10 system codename buster, for the 32bit pc i386 architecture. Debian user forums view topic installing debian lenny. For installation images and documentation about how to install bullseye which is currently testing, see the debian installer page to install debian 10. The softwareraid howto linux documentation project.
Rescue mode should be used with great care when software raid arrays were in use on the system to rescue. Install debian etch on a software raid 1 with sata disks. Currently i am trying to install debian lenny via dvd using graphical install and tried formatting all of my partition as logical with 1tb space and making all of the hdd. Step by step tutorial howto compile kernel in debian 5. In the installer do i need to create a partition on my devhda first then setup the raid 1 devmd0. Oct 26, 2017 that said, linux software raid is more robust and better supported and thus, recommended over fakeraid if you do not need to dual boot with windows. One of the reasons ive liked debian in the first place was the advantage of being able to do a live, in place updates from one major release to another, usually in a safe way.
Create a fresh partition, filesystem etc on the freed drive. The rescue mode scripts automatically assemble arrays, which could lead to data corruption in the presence of invalid or obsolete raid superblocks. The example below shows how to create a software raid1 array on debian systems. The purpose is not to duplicate the debian official documentation. Thanks to debianinstallers rescue mode, its very easy to recover a problem. Install proxmox ve on debian wheezy install proxmox ve on debian jessie. It quickly became an indepth discussion of the vagaries associated with running a mixed system. Linux software raid haufig auch als mdraid oder mdraid bezeichnet. At the very least, severely firewall this machine and restrict access to it to only the most trusted of your users without security updates, a newly discovered remote compromise or local privilege escalation could give you far more trouble than upgrading. However i am confused as when i was running my debian lenny amd64 install and i got to the disk partitioner i saw devsda and devsdb. Due to the policy, packages which want to enter the repo must be present in the same version in the testing. Therefore potential buyers would know if that hardware is supported and owners would know how get the best out of that hardware. This wiki describes how to get linux to see the raid as one disk and boot from it in the same way that windows will install on this type of device.
If the installation comes to partition method, use manual. In my experience when you setup hardware raid 1 you should only see 1 disk. Lenny releaseinformationen debian lenny installationsinformationen. The grub bootloader will be configured in such a way that how to set up software raid1 on a running system incl. I own a server with 2 hdds and i used a debian raid installation template. Upgrade debian lenny to squeeze in a few simple steps. The gnome2 globalmenu project is an attempt to produce a gtk module and panel applet for gnome2 that acts as a global public menu for all gtkpowered applications. With both the unslungable firmware how to enable raid support in unslungable and debian summary below. Install vmware server 2 on debian lenny, amd64 64bit. Other people may have different experiences, but with software raid mine have always been bad, on servers and desktops. Apr 28, 2017 how to create a software raid 5 on linux.
Alexander kojevnikov blog diy nas with debian lenny. This guide explains how to set up software raid1 on an already running lvm system debian lenny. Then 12 partitions or about 500gb, and 4x2tb drives in software raid5 in debian lenny. Debian lenny with ich6r controler raid 1 sata drives. Raid1 resync very very slow using mdadm i am running kernel 2. Debian 9 stretch was released on 17 june 2017, two years and two months after debian 8.
There are four main partitions prior to the debian installation. Software raid are available without using physical hardware those are called as software raid. I know there is another topic with the exact same title debian squeeze with raid 10, which didnt help though. This howto briefly describes how to install debian etch on lvm2 on software raid 1. Jun, 2017 follow the below steps to configure raid 5 software raid in linux using mdadm as we discussed earlier to configure raid 5 we need altleast three harddisks of same size here i have three harddisks of same size i. Disk partitions devhda1 and devhdc1 will be used as the members of the raid array md0, which will be mounted on the home partition. We just need to remember that the smallest of the hdds or partitions dictates the arrays capacity. So, i cant see how anyone can use the debian installer to setup raid. It addresses a specific version of the software raid layer, namely the 0. This post documents the steps i followed to retrofit raid1 into an existing debian squeeze installation.
Today i will share some thought on software raid under linux with you. Sep 20, 2017 how to install and configure debian 9. Our team at linuxforce recently put together a debian server with lvm on a software raid5 volume. Areca is a fairly new player on the sata hardware raid market, but they offer unprecedented features and have excellent driver support for linux. In case you havent java installed on your machine, there is anoter howto. This page contains some screenshots to demonstrate it, and applies to debian 5.
So how to check the state of raid after installation. Because lenny is no longer supported, i strongly recommend migrating this machine or services to a newer release. We can use full disks, or we can use same sized partitions on different sized drives. Using other tools has issues too below but regardless, they reformat the partitions, so i end up running the debian. Installing fresh debian 5 lenny on raid 1 help with issues regarding installation of debian.
Linux works best with either hardware raid or software raid but the raid capability integrated into motherboards is not real hardware raid. This package automatically configures mdadm to assemble arrays during the system startup process. All proxmox ve versions do not support linux software raid mdraid. Setup and use the logical volume manager lvm on debian.
Installazione del sistema debian lenny con raid 1 software. I couldnt get the debian lenny to set up on software raid 1 using the debian install disk. This tutorial shows how to do data striping segmentation of logically sequential data, such as a single file, so that segments can be assigned to multiple physical devices in a roundrobin fashion and thus written concurrently across four single storage servers running debian lenny with glusterfs. How to set up software raid1 on a running system debian. The default kernel that comes with debian is better suited for servers. This is a software that being developed to handle the raid procedure inside the server. New server, sata disks, the hardware raid controller is not really supported.
This article describes how to install apache tomcat 7 on a debian lenny os in 8 easy steps. The procedure assumes that you have 2 indentical hard disks on your computer. Debian software raid1 without recompiling mini howto. Raid mode registered, and that no raid devices are currently active. Actual screen shot from terminal of steps taken during rebuild on 10june2010 on debian lenny linux 1 check the partitions layout on the current hard disk srv1. This guide explains how to set up software raid1 on an already running debian etch system. Emidio planamentes homepage linux root on lvm on software. It is particularly useful for managing partitions used by the xen domains. This is currently in testing so it is not recommended to use these instruction in production.
For this howto to work smoothly you must already have java installed on your machine. Installing git on a debian lenny server stack overflow. Instead of the application menu appearing on the actual window below the window manager bar it always appears on the panel. Siju rebuilding raid 1 array in linux with a new hard disk after a disk fault. This has been possible through complex installation procedures in the past, but today the debian etch installer is capable of handling such an installation if you follow the proper steps, which i outline in this article. One rather old laptop and one server were the test objects for this howto. My provider wants money to change the template to a non raid debian one. From what i have found, this is the limit grub has, as it doesnt have drivers or anything for raid devices. Grub configuration debian lenny page 4 wherever works takes you, dell technologies will be there. Debian user forums view topic installing fresh debian. Jan 14, 2010 software raid on debian linux 14 january 2010 on hardware, filesystem, mdadm, monitoring, raid, linux. It works fine and a raid device can even be used as the root file system.
Sometimes you need to store data relative save and high available. Striping across four storage nodes with glusterfs on. Both systems did not have any raid devices and use a simple partition scheme from a default basic lenny install. Some of these installation images may no longer be available, or may no longer work, and you are recommended to install squeeze instead. Sep 26, 2017 how to install and configure debian 9. Because the standard debian kernels in lenny version 2. Debian debian lenny release information debian lenny installation information. Debian was ported to x8664 amd64 and support for the motorola 68000 series m68k architectures was dropped. Just to make it clear, im kinda new to linux, especially debian, and all the raid stuff read enough to know that raid 10 is the way to go in my case.
This recent howto started out as a simple explanation of the process of getting a program from an outside repository installed in etch. It also contains pointers to more information and information on how to make the most of your new debian system. Since debian squeeze, support for booting in esa390 mode was dropped. The socalled raid0,1 controller we need both 250gb hard disks to be run in raid 1 mode is a lsi megaraid controller. Openslug is capable of raid support but nobody has tried it yet. It will, however, continue to exist in order to provide lenny packages for cases where updated packages have been uploaded to the debian development branch codenamed sid also referred to as unstable. It sits between the partitions and hard disk, and provides flexibility and power to partitions management. In this example, we use virtual machine qemu or kvm. What is the best practice for building software raid 10 under linux debian. The debian installer will set everything up for you if you choose that option and ubuntu has alternate installation cds which allow you to do the same.
The grub bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails no matter which one. I have connected these two drive to ports 1 and 3, enabled raid in my bios and created a container with both of the drives to use raid 1. Hp proliant dl180g5 machine, hp basic config with no fancy features but stable and fast enough for a debian host. Know i want to reinstall my server and dont want raid anymore to have more space. Those few screenshots show how to install root on lvm on raid. The preseed file ensures installation of puppet, which takes care of personalization of the vms later, so really i need only one installimage which is why im not interested in fai or similar heavyweights. Installing gnomes globalmenu applet on debian lenny introduction. Jul 28, 2009 step by step tutorial howto compile kernel in debian 5. Grub configuration debian lenny kreation next support. Autoassembly of raid arrays in rescue mode can corrupt data rescue mode should be used with great care when software raid arrays were in use on the system to rescue. Grub configuration debian lenny this guide explains how to set up software raid1 on an a. Grub fails to install debian wheezy with mdadm raid1 and gpt. Some days ago i installed raid 1 on debian lenny amd64 arch without any troubles for. I already managed to configure and install a debian squeeze software raid, but, will the grub boot loader be installed in both disk, or should i do that manually.
Il sistema e stato virtualizzato utilizzando vmware server v2. From what i have found, this is the limit grub has, as it doesnt have drivers or anything for raid. Menu software raid on debian linux 14 january 2010 on hardware, filesystem, mdadm, monitoring, raid, linux. I understand that grublegacy dont support ext4 while grub2 dont support software raid. Since these controllers should be supported since ages, i wonder why the netinstall cant detect the well defined virtual raid disk in the lsi bios. So i installed to one disk only then followed the howto on how to set up raid 1 on a running system.
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