Installing onto RAID

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 19:42:59 EDT
Rich Payne said:

>> I know the kernel also needs "autodetection" enabled, however I can't
>> seem to find that option in the kernel config.  Anyone know where
>> that is?
>> --
>It used to be that you had to apply the RAID patches in order to get
>auto-detection. That may still be true, what does the Software-RAID HOWTO
>have to say on this?

I can't seem to find any mention of the auto-detection option in the 
HOWTO.  Of course, this HOWTO is 2 years old, not having been updated 
since January of 2000, so I don't know if it's overly relevant or 
accurate anymore.

>Note that you also have to set the partition type to be some special value
>as well (fd I think?).

Ayup, I'm aware of that.

Thanks,
-- 

Seeya,
Paul
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