Hi there,
Short question:
Do you have a working setup with an intel server capable of booting
off of a
SoftRAID formated disk?
Long description:
I am currently setting up a brand new 2.3 GHz Intel xserve with 10.5
server.
The server has three disk:
1. Three partitions (Boot live, Boot update test, Boot maintenance)
2. One partition (Apple Disk Utility made) running 10.5.2 server
3. Not used now (to be second part of a mirror)
The server was originally installed on disk 2 and that is working as
expedted.
The plan is the to clone that OS to a SoftRAID created mirror (made
of disk
1 & 3).
The problem is that I am not able to boot from my clone if the
partition is
made with SoftRAID.
If I use SoftRAID to convert the cloned partition back to "Apple Disk
Utility Format" then it boots just fine, but as soon as I have
converted
back to the SoftRAID format it's unbootable.
I have cloned using Disk Utility as well as CCC 3.1, (but this seems
irrelevant according to the above fact ;)
- I have tried to recreate the boot cache (even though SoftRAID does
this as
part of the conversion process).
Doing this in the terminal reveals intersting debug information:
einstein:~ sysadmin$ sudo kextcache -f -v 3 -u /Volumes/Boot\ live
Password:
kextcache: /Volumes/Boot live: error getting description from Disk
Arbitration
- The volumes UUID are all different so that's not the problem
- The command "diskutil info /Volumes/Boot\ live" also describes the
bootability as I experience it:
Bootable: Not bootable, can be made bootable safely
- TvE
