Problems using software-RAID assembled by Intel C600-Controller

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de
Fri Feb 22 13:45:50 CET 2019


>>>>> On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 12:09:33 +0100, Sven Schumacher <schumacher at tfd.uni-hannover.de> said:

    > I'd like to partition that raid-volume like this with setup-storage

    >     disk_config nvme0n1 preserve_always:1,2 disklabel:gpt bootable:1 fstabkey:uuid align-at:4K
    >     primary /boot/efi 700MB vfat rw
    >     primary -       128MB   - -
    >     primary - 400GB:resize ntfs ro
    >     primary swap   16GB swap sw
    >     primary / 80GB-  ext4  rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro     createopts="-L ROOT"
   
    >     disk_config raid preserve_always:2 disklabel:gpt fstabkey:uuid align-at:4K
    >     primary /boot 50MB ext4 rw
    >     primary - 1TB- ntfs -

    > But setup-storage denies that configuration. the mdadm.conf normally would be something like that:
Any error messages from setup-storage?

    > DEVICES /dev/sda /dev/sdb
    > ARRAY md0 devices=/dev/sda,/dev/sdb

    > Is this possible? It seems, without having /boot on the harddrive, grub isn't able to boot linux, because the nvme is in an pcie-slot (called Dell Ultra-Speed Drive Duo PCIe-SSD-Karte (x8), 
    > M.2-PCIe-NVMe-SSD (Klasse 40), 512 GB)
For booting from a NVMe device you must use UEFI, not legacy BIOS. So
you need the package grub-efi.


-- 
regards Thomas


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