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

[Jeff Hubbs]

On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 21:29 -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 17:31 -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > I might be misremembering the original post, but I think your livecd
> > needs to be able to bring up the RAID volume.  I have done this manually
> > under a Gentoo livecd. 
> > 
> > Is that the problem - that the RAID volume is not visible to you from a
> > liveCD?
> 
> 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.

Jeff