Re: Re: mdadm serious does wrong partition changes

[Frans van Berckel <fberckel@xs4all.nl>]

Hi Hermann,

On Mon, 2017-12-04 at 11:21 +0100, Hermann Lauer wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 10:59:19AM +0100, Frans van Berckel wrote:
> > What sector do i need to start? 2048 like x86/64?
> 
> If you need no bootloader, you just need the size of the partion
> table, which might be 256 bytes only with a sparc partitioning table
> - never read a spec about that.
> So that would mean you could start partition1 at sector one.

That's clear, 1 = 512

> > Do i understand, will there be enough room for md raid?
> 
> Then everything should be fine. (Obviously this is a non bootable
> device then)

And how people do a bootable device with mdraid, read /boot and
/ mirrored, with Sun table. ;-)

Thanks,


Frans van Berckel