HI Adrian!
Thanks.
On Mit, 22 Sep 2004, Adrian Zaugg wrote:
> I was trying to install this for a *long* time and managed recently. You need
> kernel 2.4.27 (compiled with >gcc3.3), earlier versions fail when syncing.
This I know. We have a soft raid running on an alpha and this silly bug
of gcc-2.95 made me compile my own gcc-3.3 for compiling my own kernel.
> On alpha you need to boot from bsd disklabels, but those don't support
> autodetect softraid - at least no-one could show me they really do. Hence, you
I thought that this might be the problem.
> have to setup a boot partition, which is not on the raid and has bsd
> disklabels, and a root partition, which is on the raid and has pc-style
> disklabels (type fd). If I remember right, you cannot mix pc-style and bsd
> disklabels on one physical disk, so you need to have a separate physical
> bootdisk. Apart from that, it's the same as on a i386.
Grmmm, well, complicated. Anyway, I will have to go for this, if nobody
else can contribute genius ideas.
What I definitely do NOT want to do to start to fiddle with initrd for
setting up and starting the raid devices, I really want the auto detect
feature. (Partly because I have no idea how to fiddle around with
initrd, I never managed to get it to work properly, and always compile
my kernels without the need for initrd).
> Please correct me, if I'm wrong.
Me too ;-) and again thanks a lot.
Best wishes
Norbert
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