seany1212
October 13th, 2013, 01:06 PM
Hi All,
I'm trying to get set up on Ubuntu 12.04 32bit Desktop with a RAID0 setup. I've installed Ubuntu under standard setup conditions before but i'm really struggling getting it going on a RAID0 setup.
I'm attempting to install it from a USB live stick on 2 empty 320GB hard-drives of same make and model.
I've got 2 options from what i can see/have read, having tried installing it on a 'fakeraid' setup from the BIOS and installing it on a 'softraid' setup using mdadm.
So far i've set up the 'fakeraid' setup leaving me a /dev/mapper/nvidia_<code> device and then created 3 partitions from that device, a ext4 boot partition of 1GB, a 4GB swap area (2gig of ram) and the rest of the storage as a root partition. This then gets onto grub install and fails as usual, i've then ran the boot-repair running the requested terminal commands to create the grub boot correctly and upon completion it then reinstalls but ubuntu logo appears with loading graphic but then command shows up saying that it waited too long as was unable to load certain aspects and displays a terminal trying to run /bin/sh commands.
Next i've tried mdadm creation of RAID0, it creates the raid setup fine (shows up in cat /proc/mdstat) and i've tried creating 3 partitions created in the above 'fakeraid' setup in the installation but again the grub fails to install as well as creating the 3 partitions with the same configuration in Gparted and attempting to install grub on the boot partition manually in terminal, again failing.
I just want to be able to 'easily' install ubuntu on an 'easily' created RAID0 setup but it seems to be failing before i've even installed the OS...
A lot of the information seems to be outdated in terms of what i've been searching, referring mainly back to older versions of ubuntu where the installation methods have changed (GUI menus available now). Hopefully i've covered as much information as i can to help solve the issue but i'll try to obtain some more in the mean time.
Seany
I'm trying to get set up on Ubuntu 12.04 32bit Desktop with a RAID0 setup. I've installed Ubuntu under standard setup conditions before but i'm really struggling getting it going on a RAID0 setup.
I'm attempting to install it from a USB live stick on 2 empty 320GB hard-drives of same make and model.
I've got 2 options from what i can see/have read, having tried installing it on a 'fakeraid' setup from the BIOS and installing it on a 'softraid' setup using mdadm.
So far i've set up the 'fakeraid' setup leaving me a /dev/mapper/nvidia_<code> device and then created 3 partitions from that device, a ext4 boot partition of 1GB, a 4GB swap area (2gig of ram) and the rest of the storage as a root partition. This then gets onto grub install and fails as usual, i've then ran the boot-repair running the requested terminal commands to create the grub boot correctly and upon completion it then reinstalls but ubuntu logo appears with loading graphic but then command shows up saying that it waited too long as was unable to load certain aspects and displays a terminal trying to run /bin/sh commands.
Next i've tried mdadm creation of RAID0, it creates the raid setup fine (shows up in cat /proc/mdstat) and i've tried creating 3 partitions created in the above 'fakeraid' setup in the installation but again the grub fails to install as well as creating the 3 partitions with the same configuration in Gparted and attempting to install grub on the boot partition manually in terminal, again failing.
I just want to be able to 'easily' install ubuntu on an 'easily' created RAID0 setup but it seems to be failing before i've even installed the OS...
A lot of the information seems to be outdated in terms of what i've been searching, referring mainly back to older versions of ubuntu where the installation methods have changed (GUI menus available now). Hopefully i've covered as much information as i can to help solve the issue but i'll try to obtain some more in the mean time.
Seany