Messages in this thread | | | Subject | booting RAID partitions | Date | Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:46:38 -0400 (EDT) | From | Jeff Garzik <> |
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following up to my own message :)
To use a RAID root filesystem, I think you can use a boot partition. Put the kernel and an initrd image on a small, non-RAID fs, perhaps mounted on /bootpart. Setup LILO to point to vmlinuz and initrd.img in /bootpart.
The initrd image would contain statically-compiled md tools, and a /linuxrc script that inits the RAID partition and mounts it as the new root.
Then, the only thing you have to worry about is losing your non-RAID boot partition. :) Paranoid people could even create a number of these boot partitions all over their boot disk. ;)
Jeff
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