Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 15:20:08 -0400
From: Dave Cinege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Paul Jakma wrote:
>
> On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Dave Cinege wrote:
>
> Lilo (aka absolute sector offset) is the old, dumb, way to boot.
>
> Use grub. http://www.uruk.org/~erich/grub/
> Premade grub disk is here: ftp://ftp.psychosis.com/linux/
>
> a bootloader that can read a kernel from a linux raid device would be
> really nice. but it's not in grub.
Grub can read from any normal FAT, ext2, or BSD, FS. This would include
a raid1 drive (which was what was mentioned).
Otherwise the proper way to do root raid is with a small ext2 partition
(8MB) that is speced on the initrd line. (IE initrd=/dev/sda1)
and use grub to read the kernel off that.
There is no need for initrd. Use rdev to set the root as /dev/md0 for
a kernel on a partition accessible by the Bios & lilo. I used an 8Mb
partition to hold a few kernels and a rescue system, no initrd (this
time) and the latest raid patches & tools. It was much easier than
the old way. Mounting that small partition afterwards as /boot makes
it easy to maintain (along with a few symlinks).
