[ale] SuSE woes... GRUB/No Root Partition/Can't mount RAID array

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 22:03 -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:

> > 
> > I don't think that (m)any of the live CD's support auto-mounting of a
> > RAID system other than a hardware raid setup. You will likely need to
> > create the /etc/raidtab file in order to have chance of mounting the md0
> > array to extract the files.
> 
> That's the way it is in Gentoo.  You create an /etc/raidtab right there
> in livecd-space, modprobe the appropriate modules, and saddle up.  I did
> this recently to work on a junker whose disk I/O could be raised from
> ~4MB/s to ~6MB/s by establishing a RAID 0 volume between two drives on
> different controllers.

Yes, I was not as clear as I should have been. The entire key is make
the raidtab file and load up and mount.

This is an area where backups are vital.
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