Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initramfs & RAID at boot time

2010-04-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:27:15 +0300, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote: > Well I've tried exactly that: I've aggregated two partitions in > RAID1, made the file system, then tried to install Grub on them (as in > run grub-setup or grub-install or grub and then from the shell the > setup)... And I di

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initramfs & RAID at boot time

2010-04-19 Thread Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:16, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:57:38 +0300, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote: > >>     Also a question for about /boot on RAID1... I didn't manage to >> make it work... Could you Neil please tell me exactly how you did >> this? I'm most interested in how y

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initramfs & RAID at boot time

2010-04-19 Thread Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:42, Jarry wrote: > On 18. 4. 2010 8:57, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote: > >>     * there is an option for the kernel that must be enabled at >> compile time that enables automatic RAID detection and assembly by the >> kernel before mounting /, but it works only for MD meta

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initramfs & RAID at boot time

2010-04-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:13:08 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> I'm not sure that we good advice or not for RAIDs that could be >> assembled later but that's what I did and it leads to the kernel >> trying to do everything before the system is t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initramfs & RAID at boot time

2010-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:13:08 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > I'm not sure that we good advice or not for RAIDs that could be > assembled later but that's what I did and it leads to the kernel > trying to do everything before the system is totally up and mdadm is > really running. I only have one RAID

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initramfs & RAID at boot time

2010-04-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:36:39 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Empirically any way there doesn't seem to be a problem. I built the >> new kernel and it booted normally so I think I'm misinterpreting what >> was written in the Wiki or the Wiki is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initramfs & RAID at boot time

2010-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:57:38 +0300, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote: > Also a question for about /boot on RAID1... I didn't manage to > make it work... Could you Neil please tell me exactly how you did > this? I'm most interested in how you've convinced Grub to work... You just don't tell GRUB t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initramfs & RAID at boot time

2010-04-18 Thread Jarry
On 18. 4. 2010 8:57, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote: * there is an option for the kernel that must be enabled at compile time that enables automatic RAID detection and assembly by the kernel before mounting /, but it works only for MD metadata 0.96 (see [1]); * the default metadata for `

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initramfs & RAID at boot time

2010-04-17 Thread Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:36:39 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Empirically any way there doesn't seem to be a problem. I built the >> new kernel and it booted normally so I think I'm misinterpreting what >> was written in the Wiki or the Wiki is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initramfs & RAID at boot time

2010-04-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:36:39 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Empirically any way there doesn't seem to be a problem. I built the > new kernel and it booted normally so I think I'm misinterpreting what > was written in the Wiki or the Wiki is wrong. As long as /boot is not on RAID, or is on RAID1, you

[gentoo-user] Re: initramfs & RAID at boot time

2010-04-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >   I've never learned to do an initramfs as I've never used hardware > in a Linux box that required it. However now I find myself using mdadm > software-RAID and getting dinged on the linux-raid list when I ask > about things like the ker