Re: usb raid1 pendrive boot

[Jozsi Vadkan <jozsi.avadkan@gmail.com>]

But i thought that, I can boot from RAID1 under Lenny. So i can't?

So the solution is that I need a separate /boot partition?

But the RAID will be useless then... 






2010. 05. 7, péntek keltezéssel 14.22-kor deloptes ezt írta:
> Jozsi Vadkan wrote:
> 
> > Did anyone managed to boot from RAID1?
> > 
> > Lenny gives this error message:
> > 
> > "mdadm: no devices found for /dev/md0"
> > 
> > I just want to install Debian Lenny on two pendrives [in sRAID1], so
> > that the HDD's in the pc can be used only as ""data containers"", but it
> > gives this error message.
> > 
> > Please help me.
> > 
> > Thank you!
> 
> If you don't know why this is happening, then you shouldn't be doing this!
> 
> This is because you don't have the md driver _in_ the kernel
> 
> You'll need a small i.e. 20-30MB partition out of raid to boot from with
> i.e. initrd which loads the md driver and your raid device becomes visible.
> 
> It doesn't matter if it's a pendrive or something else.
> 
> regards
> 
> 
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