From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j1SGJ1af018878 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:19:01 GMT Received: from rocket by smtp.gentoo.org with local (Exim 4.42) id 1D5nbm-0001Qx-8K for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:18:58 +0000 Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:18:58 +0000 To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] support 4 SATA fakeRAID: dmraid Message-ID: <20050228161858.GA10768@toucan.gentoo.org> References: <422210AC.7050705@iol.cz> <1109542051.22344.33.camel@nosferatu.lan> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1109542051.22344.33.camel@nosferatu.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i From: "Eric Edgar,,," X-Archives-Salt: f552e5ce-6667-4d8c-8910-3e5f84542b67 X-Archives-Hash: 56035062fba6c4ec817f2feae51dba43 Martin, The latest genkernel will allow you to create an initrd with dmraid support. You will need to do an alternate style install until this support catches up with the livecd. genkernel --help will show you the option required for including dmraid. This support is very experimental and has not been fully tested yet. Eric Edgar Gentoo Linux Developer > Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 12:07:31AM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 19:25 +0100, Markus Nicolussi wrote: > > Hi, > > > Nothing the less i'd like to suggest dmaid support in the offical LiveCDs and a > > ebuild for dmraid (i can do 'emerge dev-mapper' but not 'emerge dmraid') > > > > I use dmraid, but then I have my / on ISW, so I got it to link against > klibc with much issues, and have it in initramfs. I guess I could add > it, but I cannot really do much testing besides see that it compiles and > install in the correct place. > > > The HOW-TOs i found by using search engines, searching your archives and > > searching forums aren't so cool. I've spent MANY hours, not to say DAYS with it. > > i'd appreciate an easier approach. I also would like to help -- with my > > restricted knowledge. maybe testing? > > > > Can say I can really help here - I learnt the hard way, and are in no > way a docs writer. > > > Regards, > > -- > Martin Schlemmer > Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer > Cape Town, South Africa > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list