On 2006-12-15 19:14 +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Andre Majorel wrote: > > >Can you use RAID1 devices for your root and swap with a "straight" > >kernel ? (i.e. without the need for initrd/initramfs.) > > Yes - but you need the md (and ide/scsi/sata) drivers compiled > into your kernel, and make sure the parition types are 0xFD and > trust the kernel auto-detection. [...] > >If that matters, the boot manager would be LILO and each MD device > >would be assembled from "parallel" logical partitions. > > Lilo is fine. Even kernel auto-detection is fine for me. Thanks Jurriaan and Gordon. I think I may still be f*cked, however. The Lilo doc says you can't use raid-extra-boot=mbr-only if boot= does not point to a raid device. Which it doesn't because in my setup, boot=/dev/sda. Using boot=/dev/md5 would solve the raid-extra-boot issue but the components of /dev/md5 are not primary partitions (/dev/sda5, /dev/sdb5) so I don't think that would work. I *could* run lilo once for each disk after tweaking boot= in lilo.conf, or just supply a different -M option but I'm not sure. The Lilo doc is not terribly enlightening. Not for me, anyway. :-) > A nice little tip I learned from someone else on the list is to > have your md devices named after the partition numbers. So: > > md1 is /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdc1 > md2 is /dev/hda2 and /dev/hdc2 That's an improvement on what I was doing. Just "renumbered" my devices that way (mdadm --assemble /dev/md8 -U super-minor /dev/sda8 /dev/sdb8 ...). Thanks. -- André Majorel <URL:http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/> Do not use this account for regular correspondence. See the URL above for contact information. - 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
