On 19 Mar 2007, James W. Laferriere outgrabe:
What I don't see is the reasoning behind the use of initrd . It's a
kernel ran to put the dev tree in order , start up devices ,... Just to
start the kernel again ?
That's not what initrds do. No second kernel is started, and
On Saturday March 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Neil Brown wrote:
In-kernel auto-assembly using partition type 0xFD only works for
metadata=0.90. This is deliberate.
Don't use 0xFD partitions. Use mdadm to assemble your array, either
via an initrd or (if it don't hold the root
Hello Neil Bill ,
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Neil Brown wrote:
On Saturday March 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Neil Brown wrote:
In-kernel auto-assembly using partition type 0xFD only works for
metadata=0.90. This is deliberate.
Don't use 0xFD partitions. Use mdadm
On Friday March 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello All , I am having a dickens of a time with preparing this system
to replace my present one .
I created a raid6 array over 6 147GB scsi drives .
steps I followed were .
fdisk /dev/sd[c-h] ( one at a time of course )