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    SubjectRe: Booting off of a MD striped drive?
    On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Adam J Megacz wrote:

    > Hi. I have 2 drives, MD-ed together, that I'd like to boot off of.
    > Right now I have a root partition on the first one, and the rest of the
    > first one is striped with the second one. Is there a way to make them
    > into one BIG drive and just boot off of that (i.e., ardcode 'mdadd
    > /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 /dev/hdb1' into the kernel). Could an initial ram
    > disk be used? Could I have a small root partition to set up the MD
    > device and then unmount that partition and remount /dev/md0 as root?
    > Even better yet, is there a kernel parameter I can pass to MD that will
    > let it know that md0=hda1+hdb1? Thanks for any help 'yall can give me.
    >
    From kernel's side it should work fine with an initrd. Just do the 'mdadd'
    within the linuxrc script, and it should be fine.

    But I don't know if LILO can handle md'ed drives. If not, you would have
    to boot from a floppy. Not that nice.

    Gerd

    PS: I would prefere to be able to access the root fs as is, without having
    to run any tool before mounting it. This makes life much easier while
    troubleshooting something.

    > - Adam
    >
    >

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    Gerd Knorr <kraxel@cs.tu-berlin.de> | http://wwwwbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~kraxel/

    Linux hackers are funny people: They count the time in patchlevels.


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