Hi, > I've been reading the mails on the list, and I've heared something about > a lilo path for raid. What does this mean?. Can we boot from an ataraid > device?. I mean: I've got a Promise raid PDC20265 controller, and I have > to work with a 2.4.25 kernel because I thougth it was impossible to boot > from a 2.6.x kernel. Is it really impossible?. Could that lilo path help > me?. Anyway, my devices are in /dev/ataraid/ working properly, booting > properly and everything properly but... with a 2.4 kernel. > > Many time ago, someone told me (thank you again) that the initrd hadn't > been patched yet, so that it was impossible to boot from an ataraid > device. Is that still true?. Is there ANYWAY to boot from a 2.6.x kernel > with an ataraid device?. (I mean, if I have to dance a zulu dance for > making my system bootable with a 2.6, I will dance it :) ) Yup, it's definitely possible with Fedora Core 3. It contains the necessary kernel patches and the dmraid binary. All you need to add to FC3 is: - patch mkinitrd to include a static dmraid binary in initrd and run it - patch rc.sysinit to run static dmraid to setup the mapper devices - add /sbin/dmraid.static to your system - build lilo with Gerte's patch http://tienstra4.flatnet.tudelft.nl/~gerte/gen2dmraid/lilo-22.6-dmraid.patch I can boot FC3 with my Sil3112 ATA Raid, and run lilo when it's running ;) Kind regards, Mark Wormgoor -- *************************************************************** * |\ /| | /| / Mark Wormgoor * * | \ / | | / | / mailto:mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx * * | \/ |ark |/ |/ormgoor http://www.wormgoor.com/mark/ * ***************************************************************
