On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 10:02:37PM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote: > On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 20:05, David Morris wrote: > > I plan on booting to the raid array, however, I obviously cannot install > > the system directly to a raid array as I at the very least have to patch > > the 2.2 kernel. So what is the best way to get the system transfered over > > Sounds like you need a better installer. :) Heh, would be nice...though I suppose it might be possible to install to a RAID array directly, I wouldn't have the correct RAID driver as Potato comes with a nearly unmodified 2.2 kernel. Oh well. > > Once I have the system installed to the array (however it gets done), what > > is the best way to boot? I've seen notes on passing 'md=...' to the > > boot sequence, but that was always for RAID-0 or RAID-1...this still work > > for RAID-5 (i.e. md=0,/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1,/dev/sdd1,/dev/sde1)? > > Lilo, and probably grub, can't boot from a RAID 5 volume. You could > make a tiny mirror of 4 disks, and boot from that, though. That does make sense. as RAID-5 is a tad more complex. Do I just need the /boot partition out there (with silo.conf if a few notes I have seen are correct), or do I need more than that outside of the RAID-5 partition? Thanks for the quick response! --David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
