From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andy liebman Subject: Re: Making bootable SATA RAID1 array in Mandriva 2006 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:52:49 -0400 Message-ID: <44E08E41.4090705@aol.com> References: <44DFBB0E.90705@aol.com> <44E07D03.9020802@lesagepono.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <44E07D03.9020802@lesagepono.be> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: laurent@lesagepono.be Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids laurent@lesagepono.be wrote: > Hi Andy, > > I did the same a few times (!) with a Debian stable. I found two pages > with "recipes" that were convenient to me. For what could be related to > you, I had to modify the "/etc/mkinirtd/mkinitrd.conf" file : >> >> If you are using a SATA drive you pay attention! >> >> edit /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf and change: >> >> MODULES=most >> >> to >> >> ###MODULES=most >> MODULES=dep >> >> and >> >> ROOT=probe >> >> to >> >> ###ROOT=probe >> ROOT="/dev/md2 jfs" >> >> This tells init to use what it takes to boot off of a raid device not >> the /dev/sda device currently used. > (modify according to your specs) The first part (mo=dep) is not > mandatory (it just makes a smaller image), but the second is! > Thank you Laurent. I saw that in the same "how to" document. The problem is, Mandriva does NOT have a mkinitrd.conf. I could create it, but I don't know if mkinitrd will use it! In Mandriva, it probably just has to be in /etc/ if if's useful at all. Andy