From: Andre Majorel <aym-xunil@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 06:56:30PM +0100 > Pardon the probably silly question but... > > Can you use RAID1 devices for your root and swap with a "straight" > kernel ? (i.e. without the need for initrd/initramfs.) > > If that matters, the boot manager would be LILO and each MD device > would be assembled from "parallel" logical partitions. Yes, I do that. Make the partitions type 0xfd and the kernel automagically assembles any raid-partitions it needs. Here are some parts of my dmesg: Linux version 2.6.19-rc5-mm1 (jurriaan@middle) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061028 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-19)) #5 SMP Mon Nov 13 15:55:41 CET 2006 Command line: root=/dev/md2 video=nvidiafb:1600x1200-32@85 atkbd.softrepeat=1 md: considering hdc7 ... md: adding hdc7 ... md: hdc6 has different UUID to hdc7 md: hdc5 has different UUID to hdc7 md: adding hda7 ... md: hda6 has different UUID to hdc7 md: hda5 has different UUID to hdc7 md: created md2 md: bind<hda7> md: bind<hdc7> md: running: <hdc7><hda7> raid1: raid set md2 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors md2: bitmap initialized from disk: read 8/8 pages, set 89 bits, status: 0 created bitmap (123 pages) for device md2 EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. Kind regards, Jurriaan -- "No," Jewel said faintly, "I know who you are." She laughed, the laughter thawing the chill of her expression. "And who is that, exactly?" "Allasakar's kin." Michelle West - The Shining Court Debian (Unstable) GNU/Linux 2.6.19-rc5-mm1 2x4826 bogomips load load 0.21 the Jack Vance Integral Edition: http://www.integralarchive.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
