Re: software for making initrd's with raid support

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:15:39PM +0100, Luca Berra wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:56:41AM +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >I have been looking at making my system working with raid, and booting
> >from raid. I succeded, but I had to hack a number of things, including
> >making a new initrd by hand.
> >
> >I used mkinitrd, but it did not treat sw raid, only in the md sense.
> >this is a redhat/mandriva/pclinuxos(keldix thing, I wonder if it also
> >used in the dbian/ubuntu world.
> 
> could you please explain what you mean in the above sentence,
> i have being maintaining mandriva mkinitrd packages for some years, and
> would really love to know.

Good!  I was working on a mandriva professional 2006 system 2.6.12
kernel, and I hacked the mkinitrd to have it generate mdadm.conf etc
- it did not at all look at this. I can send you my patches, but they
  are in no way clean.

There was no mention of raid10 in the code either.

I thied to contact Erik Troan - the main author of mkinitrd (and lots of
other stuff:-) - but got a bouncing message for his redhat address.

And I was about to report this om qa.mandriva.com - but it seems that I
already made contact!

best regards
keld
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