The more up-to-date infos are:
root can be put on raid but /boot must be on a non-raid. Exception is
/boot can be on RAID-1 with some patches to lilo which are made by RedHat
and I think are in the lilo found in woody.
the root-RAID-HOWTO is a bit outdated, or at least was a month ago, when I
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On Tue, 9 May 2000, Robert H. Clugston wrote:
>Whatever.. here's the instructions on how to load a raid partition as
>root...
>
>http://www.linux.org/help/ldp/howto/Root-RAID-HOWTO.html
>
>
>Yes. You cannot boot to a raid partition. One, lilo cant read a RAID
>partition, and the 'raid' drivers hav
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Cc: Gregory Wood; Debian-ISP
Subject: Re: Installing Debian on a RAIDed partition
Yes. You cannot boot to a raid partition. One, lilo cant read a RAID
partition, and the 'raid' drivers havent been loaded yet. You will either
need to have the / or more specifically /boot be on a NON r
The LILO is 0.41.
Any clues?
- Original Message -
From: Gregory Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Debian-ISP
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 3:06 AM
Subject: RE: Installing Debian on a RAIDed partition
Ghane,
I agree with Robert. I would use hardware. However, if all you are doing is
mir
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>- Original Message -
>From: Gregory Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Debian-ISP
>Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 3:06 AM
>Subject: RE: Installing Debian on a RAIDed partition
>
>
>Ghane,
>
>I agree with Robert. I would use hardware. However, if all you a
Ghane,
I agree with Robert. I would use hardware. However, if all you are doing is
mirroring then you should be able to load Linux, then duplicate your drive to
the second drive through the RAID software. Sadly, it is a toy that I haven't
had time to play with.
Gregory Wood
*** REPLY
Ghane,
I suggest using a Hardware RAID. I use ARCOIDE raid 1 controller
(www.arcoide.com) on a couple of my machines. It's really easy to use and
it's fast. In fact when I started using this product my hard drive usage
actually visibly lowered (don't ask me why.) They are supposed to be a
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