From: "Jarmo Järvenpää" <Jarmo.Jarvenpaa@softers.net>
To: Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>
Cc: Ninti Systems <office@ninti.com.au>,
RAID Linux <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RAID 5 questions
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 10:27:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <410DECC6.6040403@softers.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040802060939.GA12472@jim.sh>
Jim Paris wrote:
> README.raid from lilo-22.5.9 (the latest version) states:
>
> "Only RAID1 is supported. LILO may be used to boot a system
> containing other RAID level partitions, but it may not be installed
> on any RAID partition other than RAID level 1."
>
> so I don't believe you. You may be confusing "booting off RAID-5"
> with "having a RAID-5 root".
Hmm, I'm not sure how to convince you :-)
The only possibility I can think of is that the lilos.conf's
raid-extra-boot= -line affects the booting, thus it's silently booting
from /dev/hdX and not from /dev/md0. I'm not sure how to test this though.
BR,
Jarmo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-02 7:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-01 1:57 RAID 5 questions Ninti Systems
2004-08-01 3:08 ` Daniel Pittman
2004-08-01 3:31 ` Jim Paris
2004-08-01 3:50 ` Alvin Oga
2004-08-02 6:01 ` Jarmo Järvenpää
2004-08-02 6:08 ` Luca Berra
2004-08-02 6:55 ` Jarmo Järvenpää
2004-08-02 6:09 ` Jim Paris
2004-08-02 7:27 ` Jarmo Järvenpää [this message]
2004-08-03 20:23 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2004-08-04 8:52 ` Tim Small
2004-08-01 9:33 ` Luca Berra
2004-08-01 10:24 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2004-08-03 5:19 ` misty-
2004-08-06 0:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-03 14:29 Raid " David Greaves
2004-06-03 15:13 ` Guy
2004-06-03 15:50 ` David Greaves
2004-06-03 16:43 ` Guy
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