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On Saturday 06 May 2006 22:18, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> Can anyone here help out? Even knowing the format of the name dmraid expects |
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> for an existing array would help, but I can't find anything anywhere. |
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i had the same problem like you. dualboot gentoo & xp on a software raid chipset. (nforce4 in my case) |
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unfortunately i didn't log all the steps needed to set it up :-( , |
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but i can give you my modified scripts (written by gerte hoogewerf) and all the info i have to create an initrd if you want to give it a try. |
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that ram disk "initializes" the raid files in /dev/mapper/*, before it is mounted |
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sorry, i don't have all in mind right now. i have to replay the installation steps first. |
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some basic things i still know. you need |
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- dmraid-1.0.0.rc9 (or what is current now) and busybox |
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use that together with gertes scripts to create the initrd |
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- initial ram disk and device mapper support in kernel |
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- your grub.conf needs an entry like |
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title Gentoo Linux 2.6.15-r1 (reiser4, +marvel 1gbit ethernet) |
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root (hd0,0) |
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kernel /kernel-2.6.15-reiser4-r1 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/mapper/nvidia_eabdggea2 dodmraid vga=0x317 splash=0 |
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initrd (hd0,0)/initramfs |
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that should do it (more or less ;-) ) |
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best regards robert |
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ps. there is no xp anymore on the box, but the nvraid is still on without any problems (although most of the partitions are reiser4!) |
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like all the other guys suggested, just use it if you want that raid used on a m$ os. go the linux way otherwise. |
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