Re: booting RAID partitions

Chris Adams (cadams@ro.com)
26 Aug 1998 19:38:30 -0500

According to MOLNAR Ingo <mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu>:
>there is a trick though: to allocate a large enough file and determine
>where the contents map to, and pick out the blocks belonging to the target
>disk(s). Then the image can be scattered across those blocks and fed to
>lilo's chainloader. The image will only be on that disk. (the real image
>file will be a big file, sparsely containing the real image)

Can LILO read from a mirrored drive? I am considering putting 2 9G
drives and doing a software mirror - can I boot that directly? Is there
anything special that needs to be done?

-- 
Chris Adams - cadams@ro.com
System Administrator - Renaissance Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.


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