[parted-devel] Test Results for parted-3.1.90 in Different Distros

[Curtis Gedak]

On 14-07-24 12:30 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 7/24/2014 12:09 PM, Curtis Gedak wrote:
>> ... it is not easy for me to test
>> DMRAID on a physical computer with specific motherboard hardware
>> for Debian.
>> <snip>
>> If you can suggest how to do this in a Virtual Machine then I am
>> all ears.
> You boot from one drive, then add two other virtual drives for the
> raid.  Since the vm can't boot from the raid, you need the first drive
> to boot, then dmraid can access the two other drives.  You can use
> dmraid itself to create an isw raid array out of the two virtual disks.

Thanks for the tip.  I will try it out and report back with the 
results.  Previously I'd created dmraid arrays using the BIOS, and did 
not know you could use dmraid itself.

Curtis