On Wednesday 28 March 2001 14:51, you wrote:
> Claudio (sekko) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
> [...]
>
> > > Yes, raid-on-/ with 2.4 is currently not supported. You can use 2.2 for
> > > that if you really need it. I don't know yet if we'll have raid-on-/
> > > with 2.4 with LM-8.0.
> >
> > That's TERRIBLE :°°°(
> > 2.4 should have a great improvement for raid support, it perfectly boots
> > from raid, so... I do not understand that choice. Anyway, if I am the
> > only one who's using raid among Mandrakians... I'll be patient and build
> > my raid by hand SIGHHHH :(((
>
> It's not raid, it's raid-on-/.
>
> It's not a "choice". Actually to mount the /, the kernel has to have a
> valid device. "Building" a Raid device involves assigning one or more RAID
> hd partitions to it.
>
And why is it working for me?
...
#
# Multi-device support (RAID and LVM)
#
CONFIG_MD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y
CONFIG_MD_LINEAR=y
CONFIG_MD_RAID0=y
CONFIG_MD_RAID1=y
CONFIG_MD_RAID5=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LVM=m
...
md0 IS /
partitions are marked 0xfd (linux raid autodetect)
My custom kernel build from kernel-source-2.4.2-20mdk is working!
> With 2.2, we have a patch that enables kernel autodetection of RAID hd
> partitions and assignments. It's not in 2.4.
