Ataraid-list Digest, Vol 17, Issue 10

[BIENVILLE Ignace]

> BIENVILLE Ignace said:
> >>    2. Re: Anaconda and Fedora Core 4 (Mark Wormgoor)
> >
> >> Message: 2
> >> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 08:20:13 +0200 (CEST)
> >> From: "Mark Wormgoor" <mark at wormgoor.com>
> >> Subject: Re: Anaconda and Fedora Core 4
> >> To: ataraid-list at redhat.com
> >> Message-ID:
> >> 	<43666.167.202.196.71.1121926813.squirrel at prive.wormgoor.com>
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> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> >> Does somebody know, how to force anaconda to take the
> >> /dev/mapper/via_**
> >> >> array as install disk?
> >> >> Or how to make a single disk become an array on a VIA chipset after
> >> an
> >> >> install off dmraid after an installation (transform /dev/sda
> >> >> in /dev/mapper/via_**).
> >> >> Thanks a lot and best regards
> >> >
> >> > Anaconda in Fedora Core 4 doesn't do this; it's a planned feature
> >> which
> >> > I'm working on for FC5.
> >>
> >> The easiest way (for now) is to install it on a standalone disk and then
> >> copy that installation to the dmraid box. You will need two small
> >> changes
> >> to rc.sysinit and mkinitrd to get it to boot.
> >>
> >> I have just upgraded my dmraid FC3 box to FC4 (using smart) and FC4
> >> works
> >> just as good as FC3 with its root on a dmraid disk.
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >>
> >> Mark
> >> --
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> >> * |\    /|      |  /|  /       Mark Wormgoor                  *
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> > Dear Mark,
> >
> > I just want to know how do you make it work, what did you  put in your
> > rc.sysinit and mkinitrd. As i see you won't answered my direct mail, so
> > i'll aske you by the ataraid list!!
> > Is it too secret to tell it to us, who's wait impatientely for a working
> > linux box on a raid array with our cheapest SATA disk?
> >
> > so i tell you best regards, and i'll wait for your answer!!
> > Ignace
> 
> I've attached the patch files to mkinitrd and rc.sysinit.
> You also need a patched lilo to install lilo
> (http://tienstra4.flatnet.tudelft.nl/~gerte/gen2dmraid/lilo-22.6-dmraid.patch).
> 
> Some people have gotten grub to install on dmraid, but I haven't.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Mark

Thanks a lot, 
The newbiest question now, how do i patch the files??, where are they
and what they must contain??
if you can answer now, i'll test it this afternoon (it's 12:50 now)
Kind regards now,

Ignace

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BIENVILLE Ignace <ignace.bienville at laposte.net>