Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
right? And you're customizing the CD to start with your designated IP address and to start SSH on boot, correct?
Correct.
So what prevents you from sticking in the CD, booting it, connecting via ssh and loading the modules manually? Then you can mount your HD's where you need them. Perhaps I'm missing something?
Nothing prevents me from doing exactly that. You're also not missing anything. It's a convenience more than anything to have the kernel initialize the RAID array if it's found to be in good working order. Just one less step to forget about if you have to manually initialize the RAID array using mdadm.
However, having said that, I think it won't work anyway. Upon reading the kernel source code, auto raid start functions are not run when an initrd image is used. I'm pretty sure the livecd uses that to bootstrap the boot-up process.
Seeing the kernel then skips auto-raid, recompiling the kernel to have RAID built-in makes no difference.
I think I'm stuck doing it the manual way no matter what the kernel looks like.
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