Re: unchecked 31 times

[Paul Morgan <paulswm@earthlink.net>]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:30:13 -0600, Will Trillich wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:56:25PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
>> My understanding is that lilo works off a system
>> map which is created at installation and is sector based.  So, as long as
>> it can figure out where the kernel is physically placed at installation,
>> it can map it. Then, when loading the kernel, it doesn't have to care
>> about the filesystem.  So the boot loader can be tiny.
>> 
>> Grub is different.  It has to grok the filesystem at boot time, so the
>> boot loader is huge as a result.
>> 
>> Oh, and lilo can boot off a RAID device.
> 
> eh? is it possible to get woody to boot (after installing, and
> no luck there, yet) off of a raid? that would be awesome.
> 
> i've got a 3ware setup, and 3w-xxxx.o is what's needed, which
> works fine under morphix, but i've not been able to preload the
> module under the woody install. (floppy 'driver' images won't
> mount, and i've tried about three different download sites to
> get them...)
> 
> got pointers?

I don't use RAID myself, but I would suggest looking though the howtos at
tldp.org, I'm sure there must be something about booting off RAID.  But I
DO know that lilo can do this.

-- 
....................paul

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