On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 danci@agenda.si wrote: > On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Steven Dake wrote: > > > You can set a RAID to autostart by setting its partition id to 0xfd > > (RAID autostart) with the fdisk utility. > > I know that, it's what I do for last three years. But recently, I've > been trying to use modular kernels with SCSI drivers as modules. > > As the inital kernel raid autodetection happens BEFORE initrd loads the > SCSI drivers, it won't work. > You have to build your own initrd which loads the correct modules. I thought SuSE has its own procedures to do it. I thought you have to add the modules somewhere in /etc/rc.config and run mkinitrd. Just check the documentation. > > You could also use an initrd > > to scan the configuration file and start the RAID arrays. > > > > The second is what most distributions do such as RedHat. > > Found out that SuSE has another way - they add a 'raidautorun' utility to > raidtools, which forces the kernel to re-autodetect raid stuff. It can be > used in a initrd, AFTER loading the SCSI driver. > > With this, it's probably even possible to have RAID compiled as modules. > > Thanks, D. > > - > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wim VINCKIER Wasstraat 38 Wim-Raid@tisnix.be B-9000 Gent ICQ 100545109 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 'Windows 98 or better required' said the box... so I installed linux - 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
