From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M2BEW-0008Lp-MI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 May 2009 21:34:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F552E02F1; Thu, 7 May 2009 21:34:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C5B8E02F1 for ; Thu, 7 May 2009 21:34:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9FB4231DD4E for ; Thu, 7 May 2009 22:34:22 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 22:34:17 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc Message-ID: <20090507223417.065df3fd@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200905072316.27414.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> References: <73087.60162.qm@web31607.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200905072253.18995.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <200905072300.06443.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <200905072316.27414.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1cvs52 (GTK+ 2.16.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/aAjCOBDiqRo_xM6clSwug/="; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: f6f67835-c75f-4b2a-ac2f-eee075808996 X-Archives-Hash: 99082a591b4614eaac6b3869dd2e5719 --Sig_/aAjCOBDiqRo_xM6clSwug/= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 7 May 2009 23:16:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > But I'm not talking about me. Wandering around the company I find it > very common for inexperienced admins to install Red Hat on their > servers with everything on one file system and both internal drives > mirrored with Linux raid. >=20 > I don't think that's especially clever. But Red Hat's installer lets > you do it, and for that you need an initrd. Not if they're RAID1, nor do you need a separate /boot. GRUB can load itself and the kernel from either of the disks and the kernel will then assemble the RAID, so you can pass root=3D/dev/md0 to the kernel --=20 Neil Bothwick If your VCR still flashes 12:00 - then Linux is not for you. --Sig_/aAjCOBDiqRo_xM6clSwug/= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoDU90ACgkQum4al0N1GQMMVwCeKWo4Ca7+HIyMqs7lh95vOBNV RgkAn0v6WUTNKbqjo2ZdBwYvV+k007+N =gNvo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/aAjCOBDiqRo_xM6clSwug/=--