[LinuxBIOS] tyan s2881 - partial success (update)

Ward Vandewege ward at gnu.org
Fri Jan 6 21:46:04 CET 2006


On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:24:26AM -0800, Lu, Yinghai wrote:
> I'm thinking the way that you can use
> 1. use LinuxBIOS to boot tiny kernel
> 2. use RAID5 support in Tiny Kernel and kexec to boot the final kernel.
> 
> I wonder if the SW RAID access in FILO is a problem....

I'm not sure why FILO would care. I now boot off (a drive of) a RAID1
partition, which is a perfectly normal drive partition as far as FILO is
concerned. When the kernel is loaded, it has the sw-raid drivers and hence it
can deal with the RAID5 array. 

Ward.

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Ward Vandewege <ward at fsf.org>
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