In related questions - i hope you can answer - are : 1. why do i get an error when trying to make swap partition - i get this error below after running fdisk, creating a primary partition /dev/sdd2 and then changing the type - with t - As in below ---
2. the /dev/sdd drive is the mirrored drive in the set - do i have to set /dev/sdd1 active in fdisk ??? root@rider:~# mkswap /dev/sdd2 mkswap: error: swap area needs to be at least 40 KiB Usage: mkswap [-c] [-pPAGESZ] [-L label] [-U UUID] /dev/name [blocks] root@rider:~# fdisk -l /dev/sdd Disk /dev/sdd: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0005d0fd Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 1 121091 972663426 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdd2 121092 121601 4096575 82 Linux swap / Solaris thanks mjh On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Marc Auslander <marca...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jon Dowland <j...@debian.org> writes: > >> >> Pretty sure at that stage it has loaded modules that let it interpret >> a selection of filesystem types, in order to fetch grub.cfg (and >> further > > How does it decide which partition (on which disk) and what pathname > to use to find grub.cfg. I assume one it chooses a partition it can > look at partitions, figure out what kind they are, and figure out how > to read them. > > Also - if the chosen partition is raid1 does it "assemble" the array > or just use the chosen partition as if it where a degraded array. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d3afegeh....@aptiva.optonline.net > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cak3er7tf4h+bqdbjjfzub2yn5h2ojfjhhpz38ofdap44pfd...@mail.gmail.com
