Re: Upgrading motherboard + CPU

[Alexander Shenkin <al@shenkin.org>]

On 6/25/2022 10:43 AM, Wols Lists wrote:
> On 25/06/2022 18:38, Alexander Shenkin wrote:
>>
>> On 6/25/2022 10:10 AM, Wols Lists wrote:
>>> On 25/06/2022 14:35, Stephan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Why 0.90 ? It is obsolete. If you need RAID metadata at the end of
>>>>> RAID members for whatever ugly reason, you can use metadata 1.0
>>>>> instead.
>>>>
>>>> Does mdraid with metadata 1 work on the root filesystem w/o initramfs?
>>>>
>>> If you're using v1.0, then you could boot off of one of the mirror 
>>> members no problem.
>>>
>>> You would point the kernel boot line at sda1 say (if that's part of 
>>> your mirror). IFF that is mounted read-only for boot, then that's not 
>>> a problem.
>>>
>>> Your fstab would then mount /dev/md0 as root read-write, and you're 
>>> good to go ...
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Wol
>>
>> My metadata is 1.2... I presume that won't cause problems...
> 
> Do you need an initramfs to assemble raid ... I thought you did ... in 
> which case your system will not boot without one if your root is v1.2 ...
> 
> Cheers,
> Wol
I have no idea.  My system boots fine now.  Will any of this impact 
booting after the switch to a new CPU + motherboard?