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On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 12:49:32AM -0800, rick philbrick wrote: |
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> Hi everyone, |
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> So many questions to ask.. I'll choose just one today. |
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> I am trying to get sw/raid (RAID 1) on a gentoo box w/ |
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> 2 ide channels to boot up as a mirrored disk array. I |
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> have read thru Howtos and noticed that they discuss |
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> the passing of options thru lilo. But since gentoo |
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> uses GRUB and not lilo how am I going to make this |
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> work? |
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You shouldn't need to pass any options. All you need to |
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do is make sure that once your RAID-1 root filesystem is |
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created and mounted that you copy your /etc/raidtab to |
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/mnt/gentoo/etc/raidtab, and that after the chroot process |
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you compile a new kernel and install it (with RAID-support |
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built-in) before you unmount all filesystems and reboot. |
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As long as your RAID partition has partition type "FD", |
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it'll be detected and started automatically at boot time. |
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Just use this line for GRUB: |
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kernel root=/dev/md0 |
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...and you should be all set. Of course, I haven't gone |
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into detail and haven't tried it myself, but it should work. |
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I should be able to try this in VMware in the next few days |
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and add the necessary steps to the install guide. |
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Best Regards, |
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-- |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |