Raid 1 in HPE Gen10

[Robert Moskowitz]

I have an HPE Gen 10 with 4 4TB drives that has been sitting for 2 years 
for me to figure out how to get RAID working.

Now that I am working with Ubuntu, it almost makes sense, but I am not 
there.  Yet.

Seems I have to go into custom setup for the drives.

So far I have only taken 2 drives into a RAID1 config and the other two 
into an LVM

Once I selected Raid and put the two drives in it, I was only offered 
formatting as EXT4 for /

I am being told I need a boot partition.  Of course.

So is there any decent guide for this?

I could put a USB stick into the internal USB port and probably set that 
up as the boot partition, but then I would be concerned, long term about 
what would happen if that USB stick fails and I loose boot.

So any pointers would be greatly appreciated!

This system will be used as storage.  I am working out how I would put 
it on a poweron timer to turn on at 1am and have a cron job to shut it 
down at 5am after all timed backups are done.

If I need the backups during the day, I could just 'force' a power on.  
Perhaps do this with a power strip with a timer?


thanks!