Bruno Prior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> fdisk each disk with partitions which will be included in a RAID
> device, and set those partitions to type 0xfe
Bruno, I reversed engineered this process as well last weekend, and I
agree with everything you said except for a couple of things. The
partition type for RAID needs to be set to 0xfd instead of 0xfe.
Mingo's post did say 0xfe, but this did not work. Digging through the
source code, I eventually figured out the 0xfd, which works for me.
Also, the current patches do not work if the filesystems are built as
modules separately from the kernel. A monolithic kernel with everything
compiled in directly got me on the air. The developers appear to be
aware of the module dependency issues, and I trust this will be
fixed/documented in the next snapshot.
If I understand the intent correctly, the RAID module(s) and the
subtending disk filesystem support must be built into the kernel since
probing for autostart RAID happens before the root volume is mounted.
Once I got through all this, RAID-5 worked great for me. Thanks!
--
Marty
