On 04/29/2015 01:19 AM, Dan Egli wrote: > Also, since I have almost no experience building an initrd, the manual page > seems to indicate that auto detecting and starting of the array is not > supported with 1.x superblocks and isn't a good idea anyway, but that you > should use an initrd to start the array. My question would be: HOW? Like I > said, I've never built an initrd, but have always just gone with a > monolithic kernel when I rebuild things. It's always been easier, and since > I only compile the drivers for the hardware I have I've never needed the > modules and so never needed an initrd. Any tips and/or web sites containing > tips/how-tos are MOST welcome!
I'm not sure what distro you're using. On RH-related distros, it's done with with the dracut command. And usually it just does the right thing (tm) with regards to putting all the configs and information to start the md disks in the initial ram disk, based on your running configuration. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
