On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 12:12:17AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This patch makes sure that specifying an initrd in the LAB config file is > actually respected (that was a bug). > > It also moves the LAB config file to /lab.conf on the first partition. The > kexec binary is now also expected to live in /kexec on the first partition.
Both should be a config option of course, as this is heavily dependent on the respective setup you use. > The reason for putting the LAB config file and kexec binary in / on partition > 1 > rather than /etc and /sbin respectively, is that often (at least in our > setups) > /boot is the first partition, and is a simple software raid-1 across however > many disks there are in the system. The rest of the partitions can be software > raid-5, LVM on sw raid, etc. We do things this way because GRUB does not > understand software raid nor LVM. Which could change with GRUB2, I think there were some plans at least. > Not needing MD or LVM drivers in the kernel that lives in rom makes it > smaller, > which is desirable. Putting a static kexec in / on the first partition means This may be a stupid question, but is it possible to put kexec in the ROM, too? Yes, it consumes some space, but I'm curious if it would be possible. Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org
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