Hi,
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Piete Brooks wrote:
> > - fdisk your disks to remove the partitions that will be in the raid.
> > Completely remove them, don't just change the partition type.
> > - reboot.
> > - fdisk your partitions into existence, with type 'fd' as advertised in
> > the doc. Do not reboot.
>
> Err -- is anything mounted on the disk ?
> If so, it will fail to re-read the partition table, so you will not be able
> to access the partition at all !
Very true. In my case nothing is active on the disk. Sorry I forgot to
mention that!
> If all you want is to stop the kernel from reading and using the old SB,
> isn't it sufficient to *EITHER* change the partion type *OR* ZAP the SB ?
> Sure -- may as well play safe and do both :-))
Will that work if the kernel has autodetect compiled in? I have
autodetect, and I think that is what dictates the necessary order of
reboot/don't reboot.
Cheers,
Tony.
