Re: [gentoo-user] Booting from dmraid

2008-12-14 Thread Aram Havarneanu
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > is there any good reason to use dmraid and not md raid? Yes. The RAID array was created long time ago and I need to keep the data. I don't have ~1TB to store it somewhere else, bring the array offline and use md raid. -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting from dmraid

2008-12-14 Thread Aram Havarneanu
Neil Bothwick wrote: > Yes,as long as /boot is on a RAID1 or non-RAID partition. I use the > former. /boot is on RAID0. Works perfectly with dmraid compiled as module and loaded into initrd. Do you say that it will not work statically compiled into the kernel if /boot is on RAID0 insetad of RAID1

[gentoo-user] Booting from dmraid

2008-12-14 Thread Aram Havarneanu
Hello, I have followed this guide: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID/NVRAID_with_dmraid and practically everything is working. However, I want to make things better. I have used genkernel (with a custom config) because it is very easy to set up dmraid apparently. I am not happy with this becaus