Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initramfs & RAID at boot time

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:36:39 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:

> Empirically any way there doesn't seem to be a problem. I built the
> new kernel and it booted normally so I think I'm misinterpreting what
> was written in the Wiki or the Wiki is wrong.

As long as /boot is not on RAID, or is on RAID1, you don't need an
initrd. I've been booting this system for years with / on RAID1 and
everything else on RAID5.


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