If you simply "cat" your kernel to a floppy you can forget lilo and just
boot off the floppy as long as any of your raid set is running.
I've been doing this for a couple of years now after I got tired of screwing
around with lilo, 1024 cylinder limits, no raid, etc. I always boot from
floppy with a simple "cat /vmlinuz >/dev/fd0". The 10 second delay is well
worth it to me.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jakob Østergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Linux-Raid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: Root RAID and unmounting /boot
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 11:19:38AM -0400, Admin Mailing Lists wrote:
>
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> The thing I TOTALLY don't get is if the first drive dies, how can
> you boot the 2nd drive (mirror) when you're still losing the small
> bootable partition (as it's still part of drive 1). Of course you can put
> this bootable partition on a seperate drive, but you still dont have the
> redundancy because THAT drive can die.
True. That's why you put identical /boot partitions on all the drives
in your array if you want to be really safe.
> Wouldn't it be easier to stick the kernel, lilo config, relevant boot info
> on a floppy and boot raid1 systems from that?
> perhaps i'm missing something..more likely that not :-)
Because LILO doesn't understand RAID, and thus cannot (yet) load the kernel
of it.
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