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 1M2BNt-0001l3-H6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 May 2009 21:44:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9219CE02F5; Thu, 7 May 2009 21:44:03 +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 4E155E02F5 for ; Thu, 7 May 2009 21:44:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so1470255ewy.34 for ; Thu, 07 May 2009 14:44:02 -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=BpQY6rg9cCEk9yJhBqjCSUG2HiRliEFJY4urKvNa1RU=; b=pMy5K/0IeNZEvVhqproGXwrqYgruEn7r/0AoE35aLEnoyfGP78Qu9N4NF+zp/nolkP WMqnKJFWrZ9Ya/U3gUiNOtJybAy/HOeSspglj47tbVj60pyvvHYyNV9wI9orbJzzULMj zlQ/w30jRXy9jx36iXb7Jb5VUmljEIbZxRpjI= 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=Q89BnA6+shXOSSl0ztHClw9hylSIxk9/VyKGVF9aPsfXACfR9UvwfrfvqkasK6T00A xZ+c4afKvrok/QWLQgU0fE2supDbhzdUbwPPeNYwQo46XER7mBEkHpFSvN/etVoGwL2/ 0s2O/TutsqDrf99mZIuoxemXDnQeHbv7XLIWk= Received: by 10.210.88.3 with SMTP id l3mr7994522ebb.55.1241732642793; Thu, 07 May 2009 14:44:02 -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 5sm270988eyf.28.2009.05.07.14.44.01 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 07 May 2009 14:44:02 -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 23:42:29 +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> <200905072316.27414.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20090507223417.065df3fd@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090507223417.065df3fd@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> 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: <200905072342.29827.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 0f3e1670-5e83-4d35-a179-96da71456bf1 X-Archives-Hash: 892dde32de7aa914d63ab900eb6aa5de 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..... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com