Sorry about the crossposting. I wrote on the Yellow Dog Linux list when somebody asked about software RAID on YDL about my experiences with it: >> The one really big gotcha is that the Macintosh partitioning scheme >> can't tell the Linux kernel that certain partitions are to be >> considered "Linux RAID autodetect" (as in x86 using the DOS partition >> table type 0xfd). This means that you can't boot a Mac Linux system >> directly from RAID because the kernel won't be able to autostart the >> RAID devices. You have to work around this by creating an initial RAM >> disk that uses the raidstart command to start your metadevices, then >> swaps the initrd out of the way and proceeds to start the real system. to which Tim Seufert replied on the same list: > Hmmm. That would seem to be a lack in the Linux RAID code, since the > Macintosh partition table has a vastly more flexible partition type > field than DOS: instead of a single byte it's a string. It would mean > breaking from the convention of using the "Apple_SVR2_UNIX" type for > Linux partitions, but that really is just a convention as far as I know. Perhaps the PPC Linux developers and the Linux RAID developers should get together on this and make some decisions so as to make it happen. -- Atro Tossavainen (Mr.) / The Institute of Biotechnology at Systems Analyst, Techno-Amish & / the University of Helsinki, Finland, +358-9-19158939 UNIX Dinosaur / employs me, but my opinions are my own. < URL : http : / / www . helsinki . fi / %7E atossava / > NO FILE ATTACHMENTS - 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
