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From: Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o>
To: gentoo-alpha@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] boot issues
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 18:20:55
Message-Id: 20031026182053.GB4428@time
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-alpha] boot issues by jwsacksteder@ramprecision.com
1 jwsacksteder@××××××××××××.com wrote: [Sun Oct 26 2003, 12:47:37PM EST]
2 > >> I have a linux md raid-5 root partition.
3 > >
4 > >Why oh why?
5 >
6 > Was actually much nicer than when I last looked at Linux sw-raid, back in
7 > the .50 days.
8 > Why the trepidation?
9
10 Oh, I wasn't suggesting md is a bad thing, just shaking my head at the
11 thought of using md for my root partition. I would personally run my
12 root partition as a single disk, then use md for /usr etc.
13
14 > I'm dumb. I was thinking the system.map needed to be on the floppy for
15 > aboot to work. I just made an ext2 boot floppy with aboot on it, built
16 > most everything as modules, and configured aboot to pass root=/dev/md0
17 > as a kernel parameters and it took right off. All that needs to be on
18 > the floppy is the aboot boot block, loader, aboot.conf and kernel. No
19 > ramdisk needed.
20
21 Nice.
22
23 Aron
24
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26 Aron Griffis
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