On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 10:14:35AM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> I think you've got them mixed up. It makes the most sense to be able to
> boot from a RAID1 (mirror), next most to be able to boot from LINEAR, and
> the least ammount of sense to be able to boot from a RAID0 or RAID5, because
> of the dificulty of implementation. RedHat6.1 allowed me to create bootable
> mirrors on install, although there were a few things that they totally
> screwed up (like locking you out of rebooting while the mirror "re"-built,
> and NOT displaying ANYTHING on the screen). But that's a implementation
> issue, not one with being able to boot from RAID. If you're running some
> other distro, you need to be running RAID 0.90, and LILO with the redhat
> patches.
Okay, okay... I agree, I forgot to think..
But then I have two questions:
1. where can I get the redhat LILO patch??
2. How do I get a kernel without CONFIG_AUTODETECT_RAID to mount a RAID
partition as '/'??
Thomas
