Software RAID on newer Xeon

[CptPajamas]

All;

I've installed software RAID Gentoo many times, but I've never run into what is currently happening on this install. I'm going through the standard stage3 deal and upon creating the autodetect RAID partitions with fdisk, the OS starts syncing the drive (in its entirety) and not individual partitions automatically. (By syncing them automatically I'm also unable to specify metadata=0.90).

It lists the MD DEV as md126, and partitions as md126p1-3. I'm doing a mount bind for /dev when I chroot to the install.

I can format and mount the RAID1 partitions fine, but when it comes to a Grub install, it fails regardless of specifying sda[b]1, device (hd0) /dev/md126 or whatever I've tried to do and fails with a 22 No Such Partition error message. I'm installing 0.97, and it registers the FS on the partition just fine, and finds stage1 and stage2.

Any recommendations on how to get Grub installed and booting here would be very helpful, even if I'm pulling an idiot move and skipping some easy step that I'm overlooking.

Thanks!
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=[ Nate Metheny
=[ Director of Technology
=[ Santa Fe Institute

[vaxbrat]

I'm going through a btrfs based mirrored system root exercise here and have /boot on a simple mirror set getting set up for that. It sounds like your mdadm --create specified the full devices (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb) and not individual partitions.

The wiki entry I'm doing as I go along is no where near being done yet, but you might glean something from the md prep work up front. Btrfs_system_root

[frostschutz]