On Monday 27 October 2003 17:00, Paul Clements wrote: > Don Jessup wrote: > > Is it possible to boot from a raid1 device with the md.o built as a > > 2.4.22 kernel module? > > Yes, but it's tricky. You'd have to load md.o and raid1.o in your initrd > (or other early boot time initialization) and then use some, e.g., > statically-linked mdadm tool on that initrd to start the array. You > cannot, however, use md's RAID autodetect to autostart arrays that have > their component partitions marked as RAID autodetect (0xfd), if md is a > module. BTW, assuming I have md.o not as module but statically in the kernel, which bootloader would support RAID1? I heard LlLO does this job but does also grub - which I prefer - support Linux SW-RAID1? What about RAID5? Is there any bootloader that supports it? Best Regards, Hermann -- x1@aon.at GPG key ID: 299893C7 (on keyservers) FP: 0124 2584 8809 EF2A DBF9 4902 64B4 D16B 2998 93C7 - 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
