On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 04:32:17AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> If raid is buildin into the kernel and all the disk drivers for the
> raid too then the type 0xFD causes the kernel to already detect and
> start the raid. So you need no initrd and no mdadm to boot. So in your
> case you DO need that. (PS: I prefer non initrd boot too and have the
> same).
Yeah. I tried initramfs a couple of weeks ago using etch, but
- initramfs-tools assembled the arrays in the wrong order and therefore
tried to mount the swap device as "/" - eeeek...
- yaird failed to assemble the root array when the components of the
array got different names than when the initramfs was created (e.g.
due to moving the disks to a different controller). Btw. for the same
reason yaird is also horribly broken for the non-RAID case as well.
So I decided that initramfs support in etch is definitely not ready for
production use and went back to the good old "no init(rd|ramfs)" setup.
Gabor
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