Well I remember that I could not make my boot partition RAID 0. That kinda ticked me off. You have to understand, in my infiniate wisdom I purchaced a Silicone Image ATA RAID card :( Yeah, stupid huh? Has anyone ever used Vector Linux? I have it on my laptop a 300 celery and it's ALOT lighter than RH, wich I like. Is there a chance in heck that I could set up a software RAID0 "root" parition before I install this distro "Vector", then do the install? I have always been able to install RH then rebuild X the WM and kernel to my likeing but this has got me to a point to where I will be up for learning something new. As for the RAM I have 512 but in order to install Linux on the main boxen I have to keep WinXP booted in VMware ALWAYS for the woman so she can use the P.C. Small price to pay in my opinion. --- Chris Davis <davis@lrtw.org> wrote: > Here's what I know(or think I know): > - lilo can't boot from raid5 partitions. If you > want a raid5 root, > make a raid1 or non-raid /boot and put your > kernels there. > - raid0 swap is a bad idea. If you just want > bigger swap, just add two > swap partitions to fstab. Don't raid them, it's a > performance hit. > > Also, you lose redundancy. If one of those > partitions is damaged, or the > drive is, your machine could be toast if it was > using swap. > > Better is to raid1 the devices and use that as > the swap partition. It's > slower, but in 99.5% of cases, if you're worried > about your swap speed, > you should really be adding more ram. > > It possible that grub(i think rh9 uses grub by > default) can boot from raid5. > Maybe they have added a special module to make it > work. I didn't think it > could, but i could be wrong. > > c > > On Tue, 13 May 2003, Brennahn Chesteine wrote: > > > I am at my witts and with trying to install a new > > kernel under RH9. My system is set up with "root" > and > > "swap" in LSR0 and "/boot" in LSR5. I have taken > all > > know suggestions to get 2.4.20 to boot but nothing > > after a month. > > > > I was wondering if anybody had managed to install > a > > new kernel under RH8or9 with a similar > configuration. > > And if so could they save there current config to > a > > file and shoot it this way so I can see what the > heck > > I am doing wrong. > > > > > > thanks for all the help thus far! > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > > http://search.yahoo.com > > - > > 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 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com - 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
