Has anyone done an install using software raid?

[TheFourthBeast]

If so, will you let me know.

[benjamin20]

yes, im running it right now.
its full on software raid. i used a tool called mdadm to do it, just do a google search for something like "gentoo raid wiki" or something and you can find a few guides. there is also mdtools, that one does the same stuff but requires a config file and is rely being replaced by mdadm.

there is also psudo hardware raid. also know as microsoft raid. its that thing that works like hardware raid but realy is software. i think you use a tool called fakeraid or something. i realy dont like this way because

1. its harder
2. its kinda retarded (it was designed to work with windows )
3. you cant raid partitions, just the entire disk

[TheFourthBeast]

well, I've been trying to set up gentoo doing the fakeish type raid so I could dual boot with windows, but I'm pretty sure I'm sick of trying that. I've used the dmsetup and dmraid tools. I'm not sure what I'm going to do now, probably give it one last try and then quit.

[benjamin20]

us mdadm. its crazy good. just llok up guides on how to use it. also, make shure you are setting your hard drive boot type to raid autodetect instead of the default setting when in fdisk. otherwise, the raid wont word as the raid uses special sections of the partitions to give identifiying information for the raid to start at boot. also, you cannot hae your /boot directory on anything other than raid 1, or else there will be nothing to know how to boot the kernel.

[TheFourthBeast]

lol, too late I used dmsetup/dmraid so I could dual boot with windows on the raid array AND I FINALLY DID IT!!!!

[smolloy]

lol, too late I used dmsetup/dmraid so I could dual boot with windows on the raid array AND I FINALLY DID IT!!!!

I'm currently trying to do this (although with SUSE, not gentoo), and was wondering if you could explain how you accomplished this?

Apologies for resurrecting such an old thread.