Hi,
The device where I am installing balenaOS has 2 disks. They were formatted already, and when I flashed balenaOS from a USB stick, it works fine.
Now I want to set up a RAID 1 disk that would use both of these disks. In this case, the device appears in the balenaCloud, but with VPN only status, never completes the installation.
I wonder, what is the reason? Should I create a partition table and partitions first and probably format them, or balena should take care of that?
The flash process for Intel devices (which I’m assuming is what you’re using here based on RAID being available) looks for one of the following devices to flash: nvme0n1 sda sdb mmcblk0 mmcblk1, and will abort if it doesn’t find any.
If you can persuade your RAID device to have one of those names I think this should work, otherwise you’ll have to partition and write things to the right places via a different process.
Thank you, JonWood!
Yes, the OS is generic x86/64 GPT.
I will check with the partition editor what devices are available when RAID is enabled, and if none exists from this list, create one.
I wonder, is it documented somewhere, what partitions with what sizes should be available?
And of course, would be nice if it cannot find any device, then print some message on the screen about what is happening. When just a black screen and no error message hard to troubleshoot.
I tried to connect the RS232 port as somewhere read that the boot process would log messages to it, but it did not work. Not sure, was it because my client terminal had different parameters like speed, parity bit etc, or it was not recognized by balena.