Re: Initrd rocks! (was Re: Backporting 2.4.23 kernel packages)

2003-12-11 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:26:39PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > If you don't have the underlying devices there RAID autodetection > will not work. Well, if you have no devices, you cant detect them. However, on boot you most likely do have the devices. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROT

Re: Initrd rocks! (was Re: Backporting 2.4.23 kernel packages)

2003-12-11 Thread Gabor Burjan
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:32:16AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > I believe the kernel raid1 autodetection only works if raid1 is > compiled into the kernel. > > In anycase, initrd images generated from mkinitrd in Debian do not > autodetect. It is possible to invite the autodetection from initrd usi

Re: Initrd rocks! (was Re: Backporting 2.4.23 kernel packages)

2003-12-10 Thread Herbert Xu
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IIRC, There is a parameter to mdadm (--scan?) that could be used for > this, but when I asked the initrd maintainer I was given a good reason > why it was not used (sorry; I can't remember what this was now; it might > simply be that the mdadm code is unrel

Re: Initrd rocks! (was Re: Backporting 2.4.23 kernel packages)

2003-12-09 Thread Brian May
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 06:31:19PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > This is distinct from the autodetection in the kernel that is capable of > > automatically scanning all harddisks on all busses to find RAID devices. > > Why can't you use the kernel autoconfig or does that only work with >

Re: Initrd rocks! (was Re: Backporting 2.4.23 kernel packages)

2003-12-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 02:02:10PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > The recent versions of the package have significant problems if you want to > > convert to or from devfs. The Debian mkinitrd has become too complex to > > manage so I have chosen not to b

Re: Initrd rocks! (was Re: Backporting 2.4.23 kernel packages)

2003-12-08 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 02:02:10PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > The recent versions of the package have significant problems if you want to > convert to or from devfs. The Debian mkinitrd has become too complex to > manage so I have chosen not to bother. This seems strange, perhaps the process

Re: Initrd rocks! (was Re: Backporting 2.4.23 kernel packages)

2003-12-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 12:02, Chad Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's sad. initrd saved my bacon more than once. ;-) If you like to Initrd broke my systems more than once. The recent versions of the package have significant problems if you want to convert to or from devfs. The Debian mk