Re: md (software) RAID missing in the installer for sparc
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 12:56:19PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> > > > | The first partition has to be ext3 or fd [...]
> >
> > The man said that it works for him(tm)... that sounds relevant :)
>
> Relevance wasn't questioned; your conclusion was questioned.
My conclusion was that he said that a separate non-RAID partition is not
actually necessary, which is exactly what he wrote...
See the whole post at http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2006/04/msg00021.html
> Regardless of this quote, I can tell you from experience that it does
> not work to have the first partition be a raid partition and start from
> cylinder 0.
>
> This is the first time I've heard that you can't boot if the first
> partition is swap and starts at cyl 1. Sounds bogus to me.
I guess I'll just have to test and see.
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