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Bug 20398 - livecd should have better raid support
Summary: livecd should have better raid support
Status: RESOLVED LATER
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Everything (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Daniel Robbins (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2003-05-03 14:42 UTC by Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED)
Modified: 2005-03-25 11:23 UTC (History)
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Description Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-05-03 14:42:14 UTC
It would be nice to have raid compiled into the kernel the livecd boots into so 
that autodetection works... also, mdadm would be a much better tool to include 
on the livecd than raidtools because they don't rely on a configuration file.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-05-03 15:06:02 UTC
didn't notice you're using evms... in that case, please have it autoload the md_raid5 module as well...
Comment 2 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-05-09 18:29:49 UTC
i will look into mdadm. 
Known problems were reported when md modules plus evms modules were loaded. 
 
Comment 3 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-05-10 02:20:58 UTC
Well you don't load the raid5 evms module by default was one concern.

Also, it would be nice to have mdadm for those of us who want to boot with 'noraid' and load the normal md modules since mdadm is far superior to raidtools.
Comment 4 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-05-10 16:18:06 UTC
yes. it was overlooked, i just changed the init script to load md_raid5 also 
Comment 5 Frido Ferdinand 2003-06-16 09:28:19 UTC
I just succesfully installed gentoo on software raid 1 root fs. This was done with a current mdadm (1.2.0) and scp'd to the livecd's /root/bin/ directory. Please consider this for including in a livecd release candidate
Comment 6 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-03-25 11:23:58 UTC
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux".

I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers,
this is the only reasonable way to do this.