On Monday 26 March 2001 11:52, you wrote:
> > 2.
> > Possibility to boot from raid-1 software should be possible building an
> > initrd.img with "--proload raid1" option and passing lilo the axact
> > number of cyl/head/sect of each hd
>
> tell me exactly what is needed, give me a patch for mkinitrd, and i may do
> it. I can't take time on this :-(
> > 3.
> > Installer now let me make Raid partition, let me install on it but I get
> > "kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 09:00" when booting-up.
>
> strange, i have:
>
> die "raid / with no /boot" if $mntpoint eq "/" && isMDRAID($part) &&
> !has_mntpoint("/boot", $hds);
Well, I think it's a delicate point.
I mean: raid (even software) is asked me when I install linux on any server.
People love redundancy, even if it costs 2 hard-disks. I always use
Linux-Mandrake, for I suppose you give the best distribution all over the
world, for each category of installation. I use Mandrake since the first
release (I was coming from redhat 5.2). At first NONE in Italy did know
something about that "Mandrake". Now, Mandrake is much more apprechated that
any other distro, as I can see on Italian mailing-list, at university and so
on. I've introduced Mandrake in server-side in many places, I can show you
the output of an "uptime" that reports how a PC is running 5-6 servers like
DNS, WWW, MAIL, FTP, SAMBA, ROUTING etc. etc. since (open your eyes...) since
7 of August! ;o) I mean: zero reboot since 7 August, that's the power of
Linux and Mandrake, just I show it when someone tell me that mdk is not
stable like slackware, for example.
Now, many people ask me for some clusters. For redundancy. The first form of
redundancy is that my beloved software-RAID-1. OK, you'll say: build raid-1
while installing and play with your system. That ALMOST correct, except for
the fact that I HAVE ONLY ONE /BOOT PARTITION ONTO A SINGLE HD!!! So, what is
raid useful for? If the hd with /boot breaks, the system is lost! :°°°(
So I found an interesting document at:
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-01-07-020-20-PS-HW-SW
which explain in a very simple way "how to boot from a software raid-1
partition". I think that ReiserFS+Boot_from_raid_1 would be the TOP for a
Linux system. I mean for non expensive system, obviously!
The document explain how to set up that raid-partition and how to modify lilo
and initrd.img...
Do you think it'd be possible to realize such a dream?
;o)
P.S.) I'm warned about the fact that I cannot make a system without a
non-raid /boot partition! That's why I'm writing this mail =:-/
> > Hard-disk is not unmounted after installation process, so "check forced"
> > is runned at first startup.
>
> which partition?
/dev/hdd1 (I use hda/hdc for raid, hdd is a portable-disk that walks between
home and university! ;o))
Bye & Thanks for listening!
Claudio
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System: Linux Mandrake (8.0-beta, 26/03/2001 install)
Kernel 2.4.2 on Dual Pentium III - 800 MHz
256 MB Ram - Raid Level 1
