RE: Booting from RAID

1999-11-25 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
There are various conditions to doing this safely which, if not properly understood, can lead to problems very much worse than the cure. 1) Even hardware RAID caches a lot of indices and the like in volitile RAM (it's a performance issue). Depending on implementation this may either be system RAM

Re: Booting from RAID

1999-11-25 Thread Kent Nilsen
There should not be any problems with this, it will look (and to Linux behave) like a normal disk. If you have a very old version of Linux which doesn't support LUNs, there may be problems (disk presents itself as ID0, lunX). Kent R. Nilsen > Hello all , > > I have heard people mentioning that

Re: booting from raid

1999-10-18 Thread Mark Ferrell
It can always be on a raid mirrored partition though. Daniel Wirth wrote: The Kernel, which LILO wants to boot is located on which device ? It MUST NOT be located on any of your RAID-Partitions but on a non-striped boot-partition! Could you please post you kernel version and if you applied the ra

Re: booting from raid

1999-10-18 Thread Christian Balzer
Daniel Wirth wrote: > >The Kernel, which LILO wants to boot is located on which device ? It >MUST NOT be located on any of your RAID-Partitions but on a non-striped >boot-partition! > I really wish people would: a) read the archives b) include the information below in the FAQ(s). Booting from R

Re: booting from raid

1999-10-18 Thread Daniel Wirth
The Kernel, which LILO wants to boot is located on which device ? It MUST NOT be located on any of your RAID-Partitions but on a non-striped boot-partition! Could you please post you kernel version and if you applied the raid-patches 0.90? On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Carol Bosshart - KVG Internet Ser