On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 01:44:26PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > AFAIK raid is fully supported by the initrd installed by the installer. > At least I've put root on raid several times and it worked for me. I > think we need more details about how it didn't work for you.
Configuration went very well, but when rebooting the kernel complained that it doesn't know how to handle partition type fd (RAID). I didn't have the time to find the details, therefore I reinstalled the machine without raid, made a new kernel with RAID built in and then installed the raid manually. The kernel did not know what to do with fd partitions and aborted, so either the kernel could not get the ramdisk from a raid partition or the ramdisk didn't plug in the raid1 module properly. As far as I remember there is a problem with raid as module: The kernel might not detect partitions by itself and need an explicit call, as done by the debian raid package in /etc/init.d To reproduce the problem, simply install a machine (doesn't need a second disk, just make a raid-1 out of a single partition, second missing) with the current debian floppies and wait for the reboot. Machine will not boot. But I don't remember whether the machine hung before or after accessing the ramdisk. Sorry, have no test machine available at the moment. regards Hadmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
