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| Newer page: | version 4 | Last edited on Saturday, February 28, 2004 1:24:25 pm | by BarakPearlmutter | Revert |
| Older page: | version 3 | Last edited on Saturday, January 10, 2004 12:28:58 pm | by JasonCater | Revert |
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Finally, install the new lilo configuration
# chroot /mnt lilo -v
and continue with the rest of the instructions.
+
+! Recent Debian Kernels do this Automatically
+
+The most recent versions (eg linux kernel 2.6) of the Debian kernel-image packages
+build a new initrd image upon installation. They should automatically notice if the
+root device is /dev/md* and arrange for the appropriate modules to be present in the
+initrd image and loaded appropriately. So if the software raid array is actually
+your root filesystem when you do the kernel install, everything should just work.
