Re: booting RAID partitions

Rob Hagopian (hagopiar@vuser.vu.union.edu)
Tue, 25 Aug 1998 14:04:53 -0400 (EDT)


ftp://ftp.kernel.org/linux/daemons/raid/ has the new raidtools
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/linux/daemons/raid/alpha/ has the kernel patches

As noted elsewhere, you, of course, still have to have your kernel on a
non-RAID partition/drive.
-Rob H.

On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Rob Hagopian wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > Yeah... unfortunately if you are using RAID for root filesystem
> > > redundancy, that's less than useful... :)
>
> > The new versions (ftp://ftp.kernel.org/...) allow booting from RAID 0, 1,
> > 4, or 5.
>
> Can you expand that URL? :) I may be missing a patch or something
> obvious, but the 2.1.117 linux/drivers/block/md.c lists linear, RAID0,
> RAID1, and RAID5 under the CONFIG_MD_BOOT section, with the RAID1/5
> code commented out... (line 1250 or so)
>
> Jeff
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