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From: thunder7@xs4all.nl
To: Andre Majorel <aym-xunil@teaser.fr>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID1 root and swap and initrd
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:30:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061215183004.GA15690@amd64.of.nowhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061215175630.GA11400@aym.net2.nerim.net>

From: Andre Majorel <aym-xunil@teaser.fr>
Date: Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 06:56:30PM +0100
> Pardon the probably silly question but...
> 
> Can you use RAID1 devices for your root and swap with a "straight"
> kernel ? (i.e. without the need for initrd/initramfs.)
> 
> If that matters, the boot manager would be LILO and each MD device
> would be assembled from "parallel" logical partitions.

Yes, I do that. Make the partitions type 0xfd and the kernel
automagically assembles any raid-partitions it needs.

Here are some parts of my dmesg:

Linux version 2.6.19-rc5-mm1 (jurriaan@middle) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061028 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-19)) #5 SMP Mon Nov 13 15:55:41 CET 2006
Command line: root=/dev/md2 video=nvidiafb:1600x1200-32@85 atkbd.softrepeat=1
md: considering hdc7 ...
md:  adding hdc7 ...
md: hdc6 has different UUID to hdc7
md: hdc5 has different UUID to hdc7
md:  adding hda7 ...
md: hda6 has different UUID to hdc7
md: hda5 has different UUID to hdc7
md: created md2
md: bind<hda7>
md: bind<hdc7>
md: running: <hdc7><hda7>
raid1: raid set md2 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors
md2: bitmap initialized from disk: read 8/8 pages, set 89 bits, status: 0
created bitmap (123 pages) for device md2
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.

Kind regards,
Jurriaan
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-15 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-15 17:56 RAID1 root and swap and initrd Andre Majorel
2006-12-15 18:30 ` thunder7 [this message]
2006-12-15 19:14 ` Gordon Henderson
2006-12-16 21:05   ` Andre Majorel
2006-12-16 21:50     ` Michael Tokarev
2006-12-16 23:01       ` Andre Majorel
2006-12-17  0:03         ` Michael Tokarev
2006-12-19 21:30       ` Bill Davidsen
2006-12-21 14:45         ` Michael Tokarev
2006-12-21 18:47           ` Bill Davidsen

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