On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 10:24:25AM +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote: > > I've built several boxes to boot off raid1 using Debian woody. Eg: > > Same here, using custom compiled kernels. Have you ever managed to get > a system up and booting off of raid1 with a Debian-supplied kernel? I'm > not one for that whole initrd thing, so I'm kinda lost. No, but I've never tried. I always build a custom kernel with everything for that particular hardware configuration statically compiled in as soon as I can and run without modules. (except laptops and the pcmcia stuff, but they are hardly going to be running raid, anyway!) I use the Debian install process to get a bare-minimal system installed, (99% of the time I'm building a server rather than a workstation, so I don't want X, etc.) with a packaged kernel (which makes sure I get the right stuff to build a kernel), but then get a stock kernel off kernel.org and use that rather than the packaged one... If nothing else, a kernel compilation is a good, if crude test of the system, memory, disk, etc. and is useful if it's a new system you've just built from scratch... Gordon - 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
