On 2006-12-17 00:50 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Andre Majorel wrote: > [] > > 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. > > So just move it to sda1 (or sda2, sda3) from sda5 Problem is, the disks are entirely used by an extended partition. There's nowhere to move sd?5 to. I think it's possible to turn the first logical partition into a primary partition by modifying the partition table on the MBR but I'm not sure I'm up for that. -- 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
