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I think I may of sorted it with the help of a friend, just rebuilding the Raid array now.
Will keep you posted

Please could you post the command on how i can delete the Arrays so i can start again. As previously it has taken me nearly an hour per array to try and remove it. Having to install Webmin plus several reboots and a lot of swearing to try and remove the arrays, my command line skills are pretty poor...

I have booted back into the live USB and re-installed mdadm, however Disk Utility is no longer showing my RAID Arrays. It just has one entry under multi disk devices, which states the Array is not running. I have re-run this cd /etc/mdadm nano mdadm.conf and it is only showing two of the Arrays and ...

Ok

I have completely followed the guide, but now when i reboot iget an error on DMI Pool verification.

ERRROR FD0 Read Error

Then boots into Grub Recovery.

Grub>

Is there a way i can recover grub boot loader from this screen?


Many thanks for your help so far

In your guide you advise: apt-get install mdadm -> when it will ask you choose BOOT_DEGRADED=true !!! After in installed mdadm i did not get this option, i have copied my terminal session below for you to see: mint / # apt-get install mdadm Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Read...

I have followed your guide down to the tee, however at install I am getting an install failure: Executing 'grub-install /dev/sda' failed. This is a fatal error see Picture I have tried many times following your guide, i have also tried setting the RAID up using Webmin and also Disk Utility, however ...

WOW amazing response Many Thanks.

Will try this now and let you know how I get on

Thanks for your response jack I like your idea of setting up multiple RAID partitions using MDADM, I have read vague snippets on this software RAID tool, however as a bit of a linux novice I thought I'd try and take the easy route first, which I think has already failed at the first hurdle. Can you ...

I'm having some difficulty installing Mint 12 Lisa x86 to my new configuration. AMD Gigabyte motherboard (FakeRAID) 3x Seagate 500gb matched (RAID0) 1x Hitachi 80 GB (40gb /Boot & 40gb Swap Area) I have an additional Hitachi 80GB drive for /Boot sector as i read that Grub doesn't like RAID confi...