[clug] Hardware RAID

Darren Freeman daz111 at rsphysse.anu.edu.au
Fri Aug 22 15:47:15 EST 2003


On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 08:54, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
> Darren Freeman said:
> > The reason I'm getting a card when Linux is able to do software RAID,
> > is I want to boot from it
> 
> Boot from it, or have it as your root filesystem?  If what you want is the
> latter, I'm pretty sure you can do it using an initrd kernel, and there's
> most likely a HOWTO somewhere.  (I'm not near a Linux box to check
> further, sorry!)

Both. And I want to dual-boot Windows such that they can share the same
RAID-ed FAT32 partitions for data.

I can't risk Windows and Linux having different ideas of software raid
;)

Darren




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