I'd like to be able to setup RAID1 on the root partition (and possibly swap & /boot and whatever else), which of course requires having RAID support compiled into the kernel. I've set up everything as it should be, but when trying to boot, auto detection of the array fails, giving the error message normally associated with no RAID present in the kernel.
I grabbed the kernel source rpms for RH7.1, and re-compiled the kernel with RAID support, and it booted fine. But, of course, the RH7.1 rpms use a 2.4 kernel for some reason, which e-smith doesn't like. Besides, I'd rather not re-compile the kernel if possible.
I'm assuming that - since the e-smith installer has a software RAID option - there's a kernel of the same version that e-smith uses (although I can't find it on the 5.1.2 CD). Or does it use initrd to load the RAID module? Any suggestions on how best to get around this problem would be apreciated.
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