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.