From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FElF7-0003Hl-3B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:41:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k22AevEi016026; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:40:57 GMT Received: from dingaan.aircom.co.za (dingaan.aircom.co.za [196.46.113.84]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k22AerEh018344 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:40:56 GMT Received: from [127.0.0.1] (dingaan.aircom.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by dingaan.aircom.co.za (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k22AemSP026661 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 12:40:49 +0200 Message-ID: <4406CBAE.3010408@computer.org> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 12:40:46 +0200 From: Andrew Gaylard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051101 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] alpha newbie question References: <20060302100338.GA16179@kloeri> In-Reply-To: <20060302100338.GA16179@kloeri> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 60de71ef-8b72-4408-a77a-6b4e99c8ea6a X-Archives-Hash: 3857ea1c8b684bd6b61298bf3c514ee6 kloeri@gentoo.org wrote: >That should work fine using a hardware raid controller. If using >software raid I'd recommend against using raid on /. Even if you can >apply some hackish solution to make it boot the bootloader won't >understand software raid so it can only be a hack. / isn't worth all >that trouble in my opinion as it can easily be rebuilt if needed. > > Surely, all the bootloader needs to know about is /boot? On my alpha I had no end of trouble trying to use XFS for /, until I realised that the bootloader only understood ext2. The solution was to make a separate ext2 partition for /boot, put the kernels there. In this way, the bootloader can find the kernels and load them, and the kernels know how to mount / as type XFS. Surely similar reasoning applies to software RAID? (I haven't tried it, but I am very curious to know...) Now an unrelated question: can I add IDE disks to my 433au (Miata)? If so, are there certain types that are recommended? Are there any limitations? (e.g. must I boot off SCSI disks?) Also, under Tru64, I could make bootable tape backups. Is there a way to get similar functionality in Linux? Thanks, Andrew. -- gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org mailing list