Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 8 Sep 1996 21:49:49 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Gerd Knorr <> | Subject | Re: Booting off of a MD striped drive? |
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On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Adam J Megacz wrote:
> Hi. I have 2 drives, MD-ed together, that I'd like to boot off of. > Right now I have a root partition on the first one, and the rest of the > first one is striped with the second one. Is there a way to make them > into one BIG drive and just boot off of that (i.e., ardcode 'mdadd > /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 /dev/hdb1' into the kernel). Could an initial ram > disk be used? Could I have a small root partition to set up the MD > device and then unmount that partition and remount /dev/md0 as root? > Even better yet, is there a kernel parameter I can pass to MD that will > let it know that md0=hda1+hdb1? Thanks for any help 'yall can give me. > From kernel's side it should work fine with an initrd. Just do the 'mdadd' within the linuxrc script, and it should be fine.
But I don't know if LILO can handle md'ed drives. If not, you would have to boot from a floppy. Not that nice.
Gerd
PS: I would prefere to be able to access the root fs as is, without having to run any tool before mounting it. This makes life much easier while troubleshooting something.
> - Adam > >
-- Gerd Knorr <kraxel@cs.tu-berlin.de> | http://wwwwbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~kraxel/
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