# EOS installation on RAID0 with blivet-gui

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**Created:** [March 4, 2023, 9:31pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/eos-installation-on-raid0-with-blivet-gui/38031 "2023-03-04T21:31:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 9:31pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/eos-installation-on-raid0-with-blivet-gui/38031/1 "2023-03-04T21:31:25Z")

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Hello everyone 😉  
I am standing of front problem to install EOS on RAID0 2 x Samsung 970Pro 512GB.  
My machine is Alienware Area51m, i9-9900K, RTX2080, 64GB RAM HyperX, 2 x Samsung 970Pro 512GB, 1 x Samsung 870 EVO 1TB.  
Last year I decided use this machine as daily driver with the Linux and run on it only Manjaro and EOS without without serious problems compared to other distributions.  
Recently when come Cassini I decided use comp fully only for EOS without dual boot W11.  
So I used one 970Pro W11 and second one for EOS.  
In this moment I am trying to install EOS on RAID0 with 2 x Samsung 970Pro 512GB.  
I know that Calamari not yet support RAID instalation.  
I made some research on Arch wiki and Ubuntu wiki, Fedora wiki etc., I find out that perfect tool to prepare drives is “blivet-gui” which is recommended by Arch wiki for this reason.  
However Arch wiki not provide more detail how to use it, so method trial and error lead me to result that I can install with Calamari EOS on RAID0 with 2 x Samsung 970Pro 512GB, clean fast installation no problem, however after first restart, system stop loading with:  
A start job is running for /dev/disk/by-uuid/ …number… (1min 33s / no limit)  
So i let it run 45 min. and then CTRL+ALD+DEL restart to EOS on 1TB SSD which I used for prepare SSDs (research + trials and errors) with blivet-gui.  
In blivet-gui configuration of NVME are:  
nvme0n1p1 = 1024 MiB EFI partition Fat32  
RAID0 = 451.63 GiB all that’s left, ext4  
nvme1n1  
RAID0 = 451.63 GiB all that’s left, ext4  
Free space 1024 MiB  
RAID0 MDArray ext4 951.63 GiB  
NO SWAP!  
After set SSDs with blivet-gui, normal start Installation until step when is necessary choose where to install and how set SSD.  
Because is all already set then just edit RAID0 Array if is all OK and continue to finish installation which is always ended without any ERROR.  
First restart but not load system with loading status as I stated above.  
So I tried again trial and error method but no success.  
I see big potential and simplicity in blivet-gui as graphical application for this reason made however lack of detailed documentation and how to prepare drives for many possible variants inhalations btrfs RAID, LVM, LVM on RAID, ext4, and many options encryption for all problem which I read here with LVM, RAID and encryption.  
So my question is if somebody has more experience with blivet-gui to set RAID0 with 2 x Samsung 970Pro 512GB for installation EOS please let me know I will also share all what I find out on my route trial and error with this super app.  
Many thanks  
Martin

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