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 1FEn1Y-00012l-W7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 12:35:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k22CZ33P013703; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 12:35:03 GMT Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.207]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k22CVF8B011757 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 12:31:16 GMT Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i30so252473wxd for ; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 04:31:14 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=G5pN6LiLFOpgw6TvVrcXlOaKezTU+/lTh/iz4V+VMEd1NDY6hIksbtbaWhP1g4pcTFXgvu8VChP57JmppPmz+/dihVqGTcsXXIAwwns7Pvui5Q23BL3roQZAZvQSXsqI2V0OScQB9NEkqvqtZP54f0TpFFi4QiJnLOwsEce7X4o= Received: by 10.70.117.4 with SMTP id p4mr3220156wxc; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 04:31:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.77.9 with HTTP; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 04:31:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 07:31:10 -0500 From: "Nick Smith" To: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] alpha newbie question In-Reply-To: <0285EF4A-EAFB-4A64-AF55-9128ABA8C7E5@allmail.net> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060302100338.GA16179@kloeri> <4406CBAE.3010408@computer.org> <0285EF4A-EAFB-4A64-AF55-9128ABA8C7E5@allmail.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k22CVF8B011757 X-Archives-Salt: 84f4c44c-b180-4990-ab80-2870a6a1fafd X-Archives-Hash: 23958dc0e4408907953db940222466ad > > 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. > > > > well i just followed the handbook and created sda1 = swap and sda2 = ext3 = / does this mean im wasting my time on this very slloooow install and that its not even going to boot when im finished? or does the boot loader see ext3 as well? also i thought that it saw all my drives, but the bios ( or what alpha calls a bios ) see's all 3 9gig drives, but gentoo only see's sda, when i went looking in /dev/ it only has the nods for sda and sda1 and sda2 for some reason, i found a tips and tricks on the gentoo.org website on how to make raid nods, but that didnt seem to work for sdb and sdc. is this normal for alpha to only see the first drive? is there a way to make the nods to actually make use of the other drives in the system? thanks nick -- gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org mailing list