Gentoo LiveCD installation with dmraid

Xerionn · n00b Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 68

I have tested the latest 2006.1 LiveCD however the dmraid did not seem to recognise my RAID 0 array. I read about a bug in 2006.1 so as sugested i went to 2006.0
Booting with "gentoo dodmraid" in that version everything work ok and i can now see my RAID Array setup as it is.
My problem is how i go on from there cause all the info i get for gentoo manual installing from handbooks is not for LiveCD but normal ones (2005.0) where you can find the stage3 file and go on as stated there.... unless i miss something ?
Any help over this matter ?
Is there any way to make the GTK+ to see the /dev/mapper/ instead of /dev/sd* this would make everything much easier

Thanks in advance

mudrii · l33t Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 789 Location: Singapore

Did you create RAID 0 with dmraid ?
or in BIOS > ?
If in BIOS RAID dmraid will not work
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Xerionn · n00b Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 68

its in bios and it does work as i can see the arrays with dmraid and also they are listed in /dev/mapper/

mudrii · l33t Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 789 Location: Singapore

dmraid not work with BIOS
check this nfo for your case http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_Install_on_Bios_%28Onboard%29_RAID
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Xerionn · n00b Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 68

thank you for the reply

This was the howto i was following and well at a point it says now you can use the handbook

This is where i am stack as ALL the info i get from the handbook is about the 2005 version where you can easily snatch the stages ... while in the 2006 Live cd i just cant find the commands to do the whole work manually and install it via coomands as everything is explained for the gui installation.
In the Live cd i cant just fetch the stage 3 files its just a big image in there