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jwsacksteder@××××××××××××.com wrote: [Sun Oct 26 2003, 12:47:37PM EST] |
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> >> I have a linux md raid-5 root partition. |
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> >Why oh why? |
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> Was actually much nicer than when I last looked at Linux sw-raid, back in |
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> the .50 days. |
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> Why the trepidation? |
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Oh, I wasn't suggesting md is a bad thing, just shaking my head at the |
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thought of using md for my root partition. I would personally run my |
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root partition as a single disk, then use md for /usr etc. |
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> I'm dumb. I was thinking the system.map needed to be on the floppy for |
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> aboot to work. I just made an ext2 boot floppy with aboot on it, built |
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> most everything as modules, and configured aboot to pass root=/dev/md0 |
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> as a kernel parameters and it took right off. All that needs to be on |
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> the floppy is the aboot boot block, loader, aboot.conf and kernel. No |
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> ramdisk needed. |
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Nice. |
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Aron |
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Aron Griffis |
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