Hi, I know Lion isn't out yet, but does anyone already know if a software RAID 0 (2x1TB) created using Disk Utility in Snow Leopard will be recognized by a clean install of Lion? (Let's assume you can do a clean install of Lion)
If not, will a software RAID 0 created in Lion be recognized if I boot Snow Leopard from a second drive?
The reason I ask, is that this RAID 0 has files on it that I'd like to be able use in both operating systems.
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
anguz, thank you for your post. I'm using SoftRaid to run a striped array. So far Lion install has failed with both SoftRaid and the AppleRaid driver. Your backup advice is well taken. I've got a Drobo on my Mac Pro which I plan to share with my small home network. It's a tortoise but it always gets to the finish line. So far at least.
Yep - unfortunately if you have a stripe you are out of luck - unless you create a single Apple disk/volume to install onto and I suppose try to copy the result of the install back onto the stripe. Lion will not install on _any_ RAID array directly. My posts are only relevant if you are using RAID 1 (mirroring) and you can afford to break the mirror which belies the subject of the topic I guess.
I tried that. I installed onto a single drive and then attempted to clone it to my raid using superduper. When I booted I got a gray screen with a barred circle on the screen.
http://elaura.tumblr.com/post/8689849492/installing-lion-on-a-raid-volume
I finally did it, I now have Lion installed on my RAID 0 (two 500GB seagate SSD/HD hybrid drives).
What I did was sort of a combination of the two links I posted.
I Used a Lion recovery disk (USB drive), choose Disk Utilty first to create a fresh new RAID 0 set.
Choose "install Lion" on to the Raid 0 partition, then wait till it download from apple.
After it finished downloading stuff, It restarted and showing installing screen, wait about 33 minutes.
I ran into trouble the first time after about 10 minutes, it just restarted itself and stuck on that installing screen.
But this time I guess the version it download directly from apple is a different build, after it finished installing, it sucessfully install a fresh copy of Lion on my Raid 0.
I did a transfer from my time machine backup (Snow Leopard 10.6.8) and it's perfectly working now.
Only one thing I found strange is that when I open disk utilty now in LION, it won't let me do any permission repair/verify on the RAID 0 (which is the startup drive).
Another thing I found interesting is apparently when you do a internet recovery (install freshly direct download from apple using the recovery disk), it's not 10.7, it's the latest version which is 10.7.1
Hope this help
Snow Leopard RAID 0 in Lion?
