From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: Time to deprecate old RAID formats? Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:11:28 +0200 Message-ID: <20071027111128.GE12053@percy.comedia.it> References: <18200.63987.514073.184865@stoffel.org> <471E7DC6.7050206@tmr.com> <1193184555.10336.3.camel@firewall.xsintricity.com> <18207.56169.769976.512617@notabene.brown> <471FDEB1.8040401@garzik.org> <47204F45.4010205@dgreaves.com> <18209.34365.375059.602828@notabene.brown> <4721F742.1090301@tmr.com> <1193424116.10336.281.camel@firewall.xsintricity.com> <20071026222012.GA8210@boogie.lpds.sztaki.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071026222012.GA8210@boogie.lpds.sztaki.hu> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 12:20:12AM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: >On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 02:41:56PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > >> * When using lilo to boot from a raid device, it automatically installs >> itself to the mbr, not to the partition. This can not be changed. Only >> 0.90 and 1.0 superblock types are supported because lilo doesn't >> understand the offset to the beginning of the fs otherwise. > >Huh? I have several machines that boot with LILO and the root is on >RAID1. All install LILO to the boot sector of the mdX device (having >"boot=/dev/mdX" in lilo.conf), while the MBR is installed by >install-mbr. Since install-mbr has its own prompt that is displayed >before LILO's prompt on boot, I can be pretty sure that LILO did not >write anything to the MBR... the behaviour is documented in lilo man page, for the raid-extra-boot option. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \