From: Andre Majorel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 06:56:30PM +0100
> Pardon the probably silly question but...
>
> Can you use RAID1 devices for your root and swap with a "straight"
> kernel ? (i.e. without the need for initrd/initramfs.)
>
> If that matters, the boot manager would be LILO and each MD device
> would be assembled from "parallel" logical partitions.
Yes, I do that. Make the partitions type 0xfd and the kernel
automagically assembles any raid-partitions it needs.
Here are some parts of my dmesg:
Linux version 2.6.19-rc5-mm1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061028
(prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-19)) #5 SMP Mon Nov 13 15:55:41 CET 2006
Command line: root=/dev/md2 video=nvidiafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] atkbd.softrepeat=1
md: considering hdc7 ...
md: adding hdc7 ...
md: hdc6 has different UUID to hdc7
md: hdc5 has different UUID to hdc7
md: adding hda7 ...
md: hda6 has different UUID to hdc7
md: hda5 has different UUID to hdc7
md: created md2
md: bind<hda7>
md: bind<hdc7>
md: running: <hdc7><hda7>
raid1: raid set md2 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors
md2: bitmap initialized from disk: read 8/8 pages, set 89 bits, status: 0
created bitmap (123 pages) for device md2
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Kind regards,
Jurriaan
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