On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 09:24 +0300, Lev Shamardin wrote: > Some later thoughts go below. > > On 01/21/2010 01:50 AM, Phil Schaffner wrote: > > 1. The user should be instructed to start rescue mode with networking in > > order to be able to retrieve the patch for mkinitrd. > The mkinitrd instructions should be moved to the beginning of the guide. > Networking sometimes requires very complicated configurations which could be > quite hard to load from the rescue mode (imagine using ndiswrapper for example). > > May be we could provide a patched package which will replace mkinitrd, perhaps > in centos-plus repo? Good point. Patching the mkinitrd before booting to rescue mode is the easiest solution, but a patched package would be good also. I really did not like excluding it. > > 3. Some additional discussion on how to handle multiple partitions > > should be added. There is an implicit assumption that only "/" is used. > > Ideally we should also provide a guide for the LVM case. I had an email > discussion with William Schwartz, who was making partitionable RAID1 with LVM > setup and managed to do that. The changes are: ... That would be a good addition also. Was considering something similar for http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5 but so far just added a note on LVM.
