How can I install openSUSE 11 on a pc with 4 hard drives (RAID 10)? The RAID is supported by BIOS but the installer sees 4 disks instead of 1 and offers only software RAID. I couldn’t find useful information on the site about RAID 10 and installing openSUSE 11 on it.
You probably need a kernel module loaded to provide the hardware driver that sees the RAID disk controller (just as if you were doing a clean install of Windows). Get the device ID and google for that + linux kernel module. Once you know it, then in installation at the license screen, Abort. That will drop you into what’s called the linuxrc. On it’s menu there is a selection for hardware driver kernel modules. On its menu find the applicable category, and look for the module in the list. Load that, go back to the top menu, and select Start Installation. The install gui will restart with the module loaded, and it should go from there seeing the single array.
I have 4 sata disks, each 500 GB and want to create a raid 10. I created such an array using mdadm having booted from a live cd but can’t install SUSE on the array. Can anyone explain me in detail how could I do it? And how should I partition the drives in my case because the installer doesn’t let me continue with what I have (md0 is shown but no partition can be created there). I googled but found no good documentation for my case. Can anyone help me?
Hi
It probably doesn’t like you not having a separate boot partition (RAID
- Have a look here (although it does relate to software RAID)
http://en.opensuse.org/How_to_install_SUSE_Linux_on_software_RAID
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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Now ended up with error 17: Cannot mount selected partition 
Never have I thought that raid would be so difficult to set up
Your first post seems to refer to device-based RAID and your later post to OS sofware RAID? Which is it? And what is returning the error #17; if it is grub and you are installing to a partition boot sector, you may need to reference the partition block device (/dev/sda, etc) rather than an array name. More details re what you are doing would help.