Re: Milo and Raid level1

[Alvin Starr <alvin iplink net>]

On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Leslie Donaldson wrote:

> Hello,
>   I am going to upgrade to a couple of matched scsi drives and would
> like
> to raid them so I can truly saturate the SCSI/PCI bus. I was wondering
> how will I get milo to boot this. It seems to me milo would have to have
> the 
> /dev/md0 device built in in order to boot off the striped drives.

You will love this one.

Since raid1 is mirroring and the raid info is at the back of the partition
you can boot using either one of the disks and then mount the root using
md0. There is no problems with milo writing to the drives so there is no
fear of them getting out of sync.

Here is whar I use on one of our systems configured this way.

bootdevice=sda1 bootfile=/vmlinux.gz root=/dev/md0 panic=60


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