On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 04:32:17AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
If raid is buildin into the kernel and all the disk drivers for the
raid too then the type 0xFD causes the kernel to already detect and
start the raid. So you need no initrd and no mdadm to boot. So in your
case you DO need
In the last few days, I was struggling to convert a remote machine with
two identical SATA disks (sda and sdb) to a Software RAID 1. Especially
the boot-part was tricky as I had no console access to the machine. The
whole procedure was done remotely via SSH. I use the md tools (mdadm)
and lilo
Kilian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In the last few days, I was struggling to convert a remote machine
with two identical SATA disks (sda and sdb) to a Software RAID
1. Especially the boot-part was tricky as I had no console access to
the machine. The whole procedure was done remotely via SSH. I
Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Kilian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
5. Copy the existing Debian system to the new RAID
$ mkdir -p /mnt/newroot
$ mount /dev/md0 /mnt/newroot
$ cd /
$ find . -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt/newroot
Fun, fun. A copy of /proc. That's a few Gig wasted
Michal Schmidt wrote:
Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Kilian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
5. Copy the existing Debian system to the new RAID
$ mkdir -p /mnt/newroot
$ mount /dev/md0 /mnt/newroot
$ cd /
$ find . -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt/newroot
Fun, fun. A copy of /proc. That's a
Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Kilian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In the last few days, I was struggling to convert a remote machine
with two identical SATA disks (sda and sdb) to a Software RAID
1. Especially the boot-part was tricky as I had no console access to
the machine. The whole procedure
Michal Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Kilian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
5. Copy the existing Debian system to the new RAID
$ mkdir -p /mnt/newroot
$ mount /dev/md0 /mnt/newroot
$ cd /
$ find . -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt/newroot
Fun, fun. A
Kilian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Kilian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In the last few days, I was struggling to convert a remote machine
with two identical SATA disks (sda and sdb) to a Software RAID
1. Especially the boot-part was tricky as I had no console access
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