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 1M2Ayi-0006BT-1p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 May 2009 21:18:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 74D27E02CE; Thu, 7 May 2009 21:18:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f165.google.com (mail-ew0-f165.google.com [209.85.219.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FA40E02CE for ; Thu, 7 May 2009 21:18:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so1456062ewy.34 for ; Thu, 07 May 2009 14:18:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=QPeVLZAq61SCqS1miDcirERdo9BM8trvpfbhK35UhPc=; b=YwG6EODeJDqBEEfFpsTNgoz7ajGhfnT0r2z5x3usAmqQR0DKvUUBO+setNmnOcgcaZ oxvEMgJfIknJRzL+HIMg5e88OMkSau8MRdFCQQ9qNX1BHPolgh5cZbqfeygoAs9swucx 0Rmr5vs1QPXGgA5BMYORtrh8yMwkbUxFF9Nes= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=j/AN3wVici82Ot2LWEaZBOwkMZ2YOXJzSNIxcC+QN2WN5bxIDQdHL35gBlAnGIrQc+ NVSEgp9lbfRFixO59J3JJlFoODM0Bjuh60B1sVfANhzwyqzJGuLIu4+PxJzXBVDw3dPe aRIPlfvYPWFolk/R/7gpym0Ix/sX9kQ1tKsKE= Received: by 10.210.35.5 with SMTP id i5mr3490018ebi.66.1241731080642; Thu, 07 May 2009 14:18:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-140-95-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.140.95]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm220023eyg.54.2009.05.07.14.17.59 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 07 May 2009 14:18:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 23:16:27 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (Linux/2.6.29-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.2.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <73087.60162.qm@web31607.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200905072253.18995.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <200905072300.06443.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <200905072300.06443.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> 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: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905072316.27414.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 00fa9e5a-79e1-468c-8cb6-afe2233b2a1b X-Archives-Hash: 5aae58f8181fe6017e8941bd023c7737 On Thursday 07 May 2009 23:00:06 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Donnerstag 07 Mai 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 07 May 2009 22:46:59 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2009 21:37:39 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > > > There's always exceptions of course - booting off a soft-raid volume > > > > > > I doubt that :-) > > > > Mirrored - no problem. But how else would you boot off a striped / with > > /boot *not* on a separate partition? > > > > Or does grub understand linux raid these days? > > well, you just put boot on a seperate partition. is there any good reason > not to do so? No, of course not :-) 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. I don't think that's especially clever. But Red Hat's installer lets you do it, and for that you need an initrd. Besides, we're talking about what's possible, whether it's good or bad isn't part of the topic. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com