From: Daniel Reurich <daniel@centurion.net.nz>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: md extension to support booting from raid whole disks.
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:21:25 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1240960885.18303.787.camel@ezra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18935.35883.181289.739254@notabene.brown>
>
> So where does grub store the core.img in this setup?
It's embedded after the MBR in the remaining sectors of the first
cylinder.
>
> While the kernel might be noisy about large partitions, it should
> just be noise - everything should still work - right?
It add's 20 - 30 seconds to the kernel start up time, but yes it does
work.
--
Daniel Reurich
Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd
Ph 021 797 722
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-28 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-24 12:08 md extension to support booting from raid whole disks Daniel Reurich
2009-04-27 15:08 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-28 4:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-28 6:26 ` Luca Berra
2009-04-28 9:35 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-28 11:21 ` Daniel Reurich
2009-04-28 17:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-28 22:23 ` Daniel Reurich
2009-04-28 23:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-29 0:02 ` Daniel Reurich
2009-04-29 11:32 ` John Robinson
2009-04-28 18:24 ` Dan Williams
2009-04-28 22:19 ` Daniel Reurich
2009-04-28 22:26 ` Dan Williams
2009-05-01 21:04 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-05-01 21:24 ` Dan Williams
2009-05-01 22:33 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-05-02 12:07 ` John Robinson
2009-05-04 17:02 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-05-05 9:31 ` Michal Soltys
2009-04-28 23:05 ` Neil Brown
2009-04-28 23:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-29 0:00 ` Daniel Reurich
2009-04-29 0:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-29 0:20 ` Daniel Reurich
2009-04-29 0:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-29 0:43 ` Daniel Reurich
2009-04-29 6:43 ` Gabor Gombas
2009-05-01 21:10 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-05-01 22:36 ` Rudy Zijlstra
2009-05-02 1:04 ` Daniel Reurich
2009-05-02 17:02 ` Michał Przyłuski
2009-05-03 1:33 ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-05-03 4:25 ` NeilBrown
2009-05-03 18:05 ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-05-04 3:04 ` Daniel Reurich
2009-05-08 21:50 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-05-08 22:16 ` NeilBrown
2009-05-08 22:29 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-05-12 5:39 ` Neil Brown
2009-05-12 19:44 ` Daniel Reurich
2009-05-13 11:12 ` Neil Brown
2009-05-14 2:21 ` Daniel Reurich
2009-05-15 16:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-13 12:15 ` Bill Davidsen
2009-05-08 22:06 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-05-09 7:20 ` Peter Rabbitson
2009-05-10 1:29 ` Goswin von Brederlow
[not found] ` <87presxwu4.fsf@frosties.localdomain>
[not found] ` <1241219902.9516.6.camel@poledra.romunt.nl>
[not found] ` <87bpq8n6ym.fsf@frosties.localdomain>
2009-05-04 20:57 ` Rudy Zijlstra
2009-05-04 22:33 ` Daniel Reurich
2009-05-05 0:26 ` John Robinson
2009-05-05 9:03 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2009-05-08 21:18 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-29 22:43 ` md extension to support booting from raid whole disks, raid6, grub2, lvm2 Michael Ole Olsen
2009-05-01 21:36 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-29 7:45 ` md extension to support booting from raid whole disks Luca Berra
2009-04-29 16:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-29 20:38 ` Luca Berra
2009-04-30 6:59 ` Gabor Gombas
2009-04-30 8:11 ` Luca Berra
2009-04-30 13:01 ` John Robinson
2009-04-28 23:41 ` Daniel Reurich
2009-04-29 0:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-01 21:33 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-28 7:08 ` Daniel Reurich
2009-04-28 23:07 ` Neil Brown
2009-04-28 23:21 ` Daniel Reurich [this message]
2009-04-28 23:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-29 0:05 ` Daniel Reurich
2009-04-29 0:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-29 0:36 ` Daniel Reurich
2009-04-29 0:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <1240968482.18303.1028.camel@ezra>
[not found] ` <49F7B162.8060301@zytor.com>
2009-04-29 2:08 ` Daniel Reurich
2009-04-29 2:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-30 2:41 ` Daniel Reurich
2009-04-29 7:07 ` Gabor Gombas
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