Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 07 May 2009 23:34:17 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > 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=/dev/md0 to the kernel

Silly me. I said "mirrored", I meant "striped"

Ever since day 1, when I need to use those words or the RAID level numbers, I 
can't recall which is which. So, I usually get it wrong.....

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