Re: RAID1 root and swap and initrd

[Andre Majorel <aym-xunil@teaser.fr>]

On 2006-12-17 00:50 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Andre Majorel wrote:
> []
> > Thanks Jurriaan and Gordon. I think I may still be f*cked,
> > however. The Lilo doc says you can't use raid-extra-boot=mbr-only
> > if boot= does not point to a raid device. Which it doesn't because
> > in my setup, boot=/dev/sda.
> > 
> > Using boot=/dev/md5 would solve the raid-extra-boot issue but the
> > components of /dev/md5 are not primary partitions (/dev/sda5,
> > /dev/sdb5) so I don't think that would work.
> 
> So just move it to sda1 (or sda2, sda3) from sda5

Problem is, the disks are entirely used by an extended partition.
There's nowhere to move sd?5 to.

I think it's possible to turn the first logical partition into a
primary partition by modifying the partition table on the MBR but
I'm not sure I'm up for that.

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