Luca Berra wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 11:31:45AM -0400, James Manning wrote:
> > This is something I never quite understood... why wouldn't lilo just
> > blindly write to the mbr of /dev/md0? Let the s/w raid code handle
> > putting that on the mirrors *shrug*... Is it as simple as having lilo
> > check the block major and just "trusting" or are there reasons this
> > would be non-trivial?
> cause lilo calls getgeometry() (or whatever is that called, i dun have sources at
>hand)
> on the device and the md driver does not have getgeometry()
So, maybe md driver should emulate getgeometry() to ease the boot issue?
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