> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Rottler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 2:44 PM
> To: Linux RAID
> Subject: Re: ask help RAID1, 2 SCSI Drive, RedHat6.1
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 10:14:35AM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > I think you've got them mixed up. It makes the most sense
> to be able to
> > boot from a RAID1 (mirror), next most to be able to boot
> from LINEAR, and
> > the least ammount of sense to be able to boot from a RAID0
> or RAID5, because
> > of the dificulty of implementation. RedHat6.1 allowed me
> to create bootable
> > mirrors on install, although there were a few things that
> they totally
> > screwed up (like locking you out of rebooting while the
> mirror "re"-built,
> > and NOT displaying ANYTHING on the screen). But that's a
> implementation
> > issue, not one with being able to boot from RAID. If
> you're running some
> > other distro, you need to be running RAID 0.90, and LILO
> with the redhat
> > patches.
>
> Okay, okay... I agree, I forgot to think..
> But then I have two questions:
> 1. where can I get the redhat LILO patch??
Well, it's definately part of the redhat LILO SRPM. You might poke around
on their website, or if you can't find it there, email me direct and I'll
extract the patch and send it to you.
> 2. How do I get a kernel without CONFIG_AUTODETECT_RAID to
> mount a RAID
> partition as '/'??
I'd have to wager that you can't. Can somebody who's done this more
confirm? The reason is that the raid device is not running until you issue
the command from one of you rc scripts, and you can run those until / is
mounted, and you can't mount / until raid devices are started and raid
devices are not started until....
Greg
