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I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to do. You want to make a RAID out of a piece of the disk? Is that right? Anyway, the way to create a RAID is pretty straightforward. Inside the LiveCD you need to install mdadm first (into the virtual filesystem of the LifeCD), for it isn't supplied. For thi...

This is a suggestion for Kurt3162... This confirms my growing suspicion that you have to use a /boot partition. Apparently it's mandatory, for RAID 1 at least. I'll try it, thanks a lot. It's indeed old, command syntax seem to have changed since, but I hope I'll manage. For all: I have done some ex...

I then made a RAID1 out of them, which it named md127. Same here, it's the default name apparently. It refused until I made a partition table on /dev/md127. I suppose the RAID virtual device needs a partition table for partitions to exist. I then added another disk and installed Mint 16 to it as no...

You want to do the chroot again and then dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc and select sda and sdb as the locations for Grub. I tried that. Grub said: $ dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc /usr/sbin/grub-bios-setup: error: unable to identify a filesystem in hostdisk//dev/sda; safety check can't be performed. /usr/sbin/...

Oops, sorry, the forum notification of your post somehow never arrived. Exactly how did you create your raid? I created the RAID using the "Disks" app you find in Mint; Then I partitioned it using GParted. Very user-friendly, perfectly suited for newbies not wanting to spend hours gnawing ...

Think of an mdadm raid as a partition rather than unallocated space. A raid partition cannot be subdivided :?: Remember, inside the Mint LiveCD I managed to build and then partition my RAID1 just like I wanted it, using GPart (or some such), which tends to prove it can be done in Linux too; What I ...

I have experienced mint server failures a lot recently so that might be it. It rather appears to be a problem specific to my Mint installation (as opposed to booting on the LiveCD). The packages problem, as the fact it doesn't detect any hardware is specific to the installed Mint: If I boot on the ...

Okay, I tried it, but didn't get very far... Since it's a laptop and has only 2 HD slots, I installed Mint on an external USB disk. The installation went fine, I booted on that USB disk without a problem and attempted to install mdadm. Mint refused: sudo apt-get install mdadm Reading package lists.....

The Mint installer does not support it :shock: Am I the only one to see a problem there? http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=127676 Thanks, looks interesting although it's for RAID 0. I hope the way to do it carries over; For instance I know from searches that Grub works with RAID ...

I am trying in vain to install 32-bit Mint on my laptop... The computer has two empty 1 TB disks, which are supposed to form a 1TB RAID 1 (mirrored) volume. It's a software RAID (courtesy of mdadm). Booting on the Live CD, I get myself mdadm and am able to build the RAID without a problem. I can par...