On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:02:20PM +0100, Massimiliano Ferrero wrote: > Hello, > > I've written a doc on how to install a Debian with root file system over > LVM and RAID. > > If it's of any interest it can be found at this URL: > http://www.midhgard.it/docs/index_en.html > > Any suggestion/criticism/correction is welcome.
A few things: o Please mention that the HOWTO is i386 specific. I recently used some ideas from your HOWTO to do something similar on a sparc, but it was painful :-) i had to use a non-RAID /boot to do it. o Perhaps this was just me, but the default debian install starts both LVM and RAID at S25 in /etc/rcS.d . If you aren't using raid autodetect this can cause problems because LVM starts first. I moved LVM to S27. o I noticed you use bash in your initrd; wouldn't ash be more appropriate? Also, insmod/modprobe aren't needed when the kernel has RAID and LVM compiled in. o Another initrd point: it's important to note that the filesystem of the initrd needs to be writable so vgscan works. The first time around I used cramfs ... oops. You also need to leave enough free space so vgscan and vgchange can write their stuff, or you should provide "-A n" to vgchange so it doesn't write a backup. Since the initrd gets pivoted out of the way writing a backup seems like a waste of time. o I found it a lot easier to just use mdadm to set up my RAID; I didn't bother creating a raidtab at all. I have no spare disks so I don't need one. That's all I can remember right now :-) Best regards, -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. -- Ramsey Clark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
