On Samstag 02 Mai 2009, Jim Cunning wrote:
> I have a well-running AMD64 system running on a 250G disk that is beginning
> to show some SMART errors. I have purchased and partitioned two 1T disks
> into RAID10 arrays and would like to move everything to the new arrays,
> make them bootable and abandon booting from the 250G disk.
>
> I know I'll need to change /boot/grub/grub.conf, /etc/fstab and any other
> files that refer to my current drive partitions, /dev/sda{1,2,3,4}. I am
> concerned whether my current kernel will recognize the /dev/md{1,2,3,4}
> arrays on booting, and before switching from the initrd root disk. How can
> I check the parameters and contents of the initrd I'm currently using
> and/or generate a new one to permit booting from the RAID disks?
how do you do 10 with only two disks? You need four!
the kernel is able to autoassemble - so you don't need an initrd - me I hate
initrds.
