[luau] bootable raid and the MBR

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Mon Jun 24 10:14:00 PDT 2002


On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 03:32, R. Scott Belford wrote:
> For what it is worth, none of the wise suggestions below or in earlier 
> phases of this post resolved the problem.  Two controllers and three 
> motherboards later, the mbr is on the raid array where it belongs.  It 
> was a mess getting here.  Sometimes when something is not working the 
> way it should, it is because it is broken.  Kudos to Adaptec and Tyan 
> tech support.  Both are first class.
> 
> Part of this project involved a post asking how much swap space to use 
> for 2gb of ram.  It was suggested by a buddy of Warren's at RedHat that 
> I should still double the ram for swap space.  Turns out the the 
> installation of Red Hat 7.2 Professional will not allow one to choose 
> any more than 2 gb of swap space in spite of how much ram is on the 
> mboard.
> 
> scott

You must use two 2GB swap partitions in this case.

Why not Red Hat 7.3?





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