Re: [Clonezilla-live] Cloning imsm RAID1 disks

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> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:22:04 +0800
> From: Steven Shiau <st...@nc...>
> Subject: Re: [Clonezilla-live] Cloning imsm RAID1 disks
> To: clo...@li...
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> On 02/15/2011 06:02 PM, jur...@le... wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > As you may know, many Intel motherboards ship with a BIOS fakeraid 
> > (software raid).  Presently, Clonezilla doesn't seem to know how to 
> > handle these, apparently due to mdadm being too old: as far as I know, 

> > imsm is supported starting from mdadm V3 and higher.  I checked the 
> > ubuntu packages, and came to know that v3 will be shipped in the 
> > upcoming release 11.04 (natty).  The present version of mdadm is below 
3.
> >
> > Will Clonezilla support imsm raids by default, and if so, do we need 
> > to CTRL-ALT-F2 and fire-up the RAID first with some command line 
magic?
> When Natty is released as stable, we will use it as the OS of 
> alternative Clonezilla live. Then you will have mdadm v3 in Clonezilla 
live.
> So far the RAID support in Clonezilla is not well, and hope we can 
> support it in the near future.
> BTW, if you are interested in testing the Natty-based Clonezilla live, 
> please let me know. We can create one recently.

Yes, thanks, I'm interested.  I tried with the Natty alfa from last week, 
and I must say it was not working perfectly.  I could mount one of the two 
disks, which wasn't possible before, but I couldn't get the software RAID 
to start (I must add that I noticed that the guys from Intel don't like 
their RAID being called 'fakeraid' :-) so I will just call it software 
RAID).
> >
> > Some relevant info I found on the web:
> > http://www.expert.tc/topic.php?id=159833
> > -> After running
> > mdadm --assemble --scan
> > which finds and assembles the container, running
> > mdadm -I /dev/md/imsm0
> > assembles the arrays inside the container.
> >
> > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/
> slackware-13-1-64-bit-with-intel-matrix-storage-manager-807930/ 
> >
> > -> a guy struggling to get his RAID working on Slackware, which didn't 

> > include mdadm v3 yet.
> Thanks for the valuable info. Appreciate that.

So it seems that natty still will not do the trick without some extra 
hacks, unfortunately.  Maybe anyone else on this list is interested in 
helping with this too?

> 
> Regards,
> Steven.
> >

Kind regards,

Jurgen Depicker