On Thu, 7 May 2009 23:16:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > But I'm not talking about me. Wandering around the company I find it > very common for inexperienced admins to install Red Hat on their > servers with everything on one file system and both internal drives > mirrored with Linux raid. > > I don't think that's especially clever. But Red Hat's installer lets > you do it, and for that you need an initrd.
Not if they're RAID1, nor do you need a separate /boot. GRUB can load itself and the kernel from either of the disks and the kernel will then assemble the RAID, so you can pass root=/dev/md0 to the kernel -- Neil Bothwick If your VCR still flashes 12:00 - then Linux is not for you.
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