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On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:59:03 +0100, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> |
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> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:54:03 +0200, Xav' wrote: |
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>> You have to know that the kernel isn't able to assemble RAID devices |
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>> together without the use of mdadm. So you have to use an initrd with the |
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>> mdadm binary to use a RAID root ! |
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> Could you please keep quiet about that, my computers have been using |
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> RAID root devices for years without an initrd and I don't want them to |
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> get the idea they need one now. |
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Okay sorry but i wasn't aware about that... When i set up RAID, following |
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HowTos from both gentoo-wiki.com and gentoo.org, and nowhere there is |
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indications of the auto-detection and assembling by the kernel... Maybe not |
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the right information source ? |
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> Volker, are sda3 and sdb3 marked as Linux Raid autodetect in cfdisk? If |
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> not you may need mdadm, but with the partitions marked as autodetect, the |
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> kernel should figure it out for itself. |
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> This is the kernel line I use in menu.lst, there is no initrd |
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> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/md0 vga=794 |
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> video=vesafb:ywrap,pmipal,1280x1024-32@85 |
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Xavier |
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