On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:59:03 +0100, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:54:03 +0200, Xav' wrote: > >> You have to know that the kernel isn't able to assemble RAID devices >> together without the use of mdadm. So you have to use an initrd with the >> mdadm binary to use a RAID root ! > > Could you please keep quiet about that, my computers have been using > RAID root devices for years without an initrd and I don't want them to > get the idea they need one now. >
Okay sorry but i wasn't aware about that... When i set up RAID, following HowTos from both gentoo-wiki.com and gentoo.org, and nowhere there is indications of the auto-detection and assembling by the kernel... Maybe not the right information source ? > Volker, are sda3 and sdb3 marked as Linux Raid autodetect in cfdisk? If > not you may need mdadm, but with the partitions marked as autodetect, the > kernel should figure it out for itself. > > This is the kernel line I use in menu.lst, there is no initrd > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/md0 vga=794 > video=vesafb:ywrap,pmipal,[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Xavier
