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Hi, |
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I've never learned to do an initramfs as I've never used hardware |
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in a Linux box that required it. However now I find myself using mdadm |
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software-RAID and getting dinged on the linux-raid list when I ask |
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about things like the kernel autodetecting RAID drives at boot time as |
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the mdadm developers are firmly fixated on using initramfs and |
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auto-detecting nothing. Going with the flow I'm studying this Gentoo |
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Wiki link: |
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http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs |
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and most specifically this portion on software RAID: |
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http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs#Software_RAID |
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where the statement "But if you use an initramfs the kernel will not |
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automatically scan for RAIDs until it is told to." caught my |
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attention. Does anyone know if the word "not" in that statement is |
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absolutely true? I.e. - if I take a kernel that today finds a RAID1 / |
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drive and boots, that if I do nothing other than turn on that feature |
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in the kernel then the boot process is not going to assemble my RAID, |
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not find / and then fail to boot? |
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Maybe I'm reading too much into that but I like that my system |
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boots and I don't think I want to do things that stop it from doing |
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so... ;-) |
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That said, if it's true, does the "noinitrd" kernel parameter |
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override it and then RAID would work and the boot completes normally? |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |