Update, January 29th, 2006. If you are using a kernel newer than 2.6.12, don’t use initrd-tools. It’s unmaintained and may not work. What follows may be useful for systems still using initrd-tools. For newer systems, you might want to read about other options, such as initramfs-tools or Yaird.
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When I started booting [...]
I need to quick guide my overview of Debian’s mkinitrd scripts that I wrote a while back. I need to update my MLDonkey tutorial, too. It seems it’s in Debian now. I finally created my own set of init scripts for it. I only noticed the package when someone else pointed [...]
Finally, forward momentum. (And with that at 4am a cat just made the most horrific noise outside, three times now. It sounds like its being eaten alive.)
Having chosen the right drive from each pair of my RAID 1+0 array a month ago when I destroyed two drives to create a software RAID 0 [...]
Until recently, it wasn’t possible to successfully build tcng on Debian. I managed to do it by compiling tcsim.c by hand when it failed, but my fix only got it to finish compiling and it was still broken.
In any event, if you’re getting this error, Nuutti Kotivuori posted a solution on LARTC.
In file included [...]
Of late I’ve been bidding on lots of 1000Mbps cards on Ebay. It seems I am now the owner of a Linksys 1000Mbps card which I paid far too much for. I just need one more and I can crossover them, one in the backup server and one in the file server. [...]
Yes, I’ve heard of OpenSSH before anyone asks. Even with the weakest encryption, OpenSSH still has more overhead than simple rsh. On my Celeron 333MHz system with a 100Mbps National Semiconductor DP83815, I top out at around 6MB/s. With rsh I can achieve around 10MB/s continuously. Why is this important? [...]
I’m sending the 7450-4LP back. I found a 7410 which coincidently was cheaper as well. If it works, I’ll probably get a refund for the 7450 minus the cost of shipping it back and still come out ahead. It only has 1MB SRAM versus 2MB though. RAID 5 is begging for [...]
So, my 3Ware Escalade 7450-4LP arrived today.
I install it on my L7S7A2 board and boot it up.
Hangs at POST.
I try a few more PCI slots.
Hangs at POST.
I try the card on my K7S5A board.
Same.
This is nuts.
I hit 3Ware’s site, which has a motherboard compatibility list that’s two years old and of little use. They [...]
I figured that would happen. Its been a week, but someone finally listed another 7000 series 3Ware card on Ebay. Had I waited a week, I could’ve spent $40 less since I don’t really need a 7450-4LP, the low profile version of the card. (And thus more expensive.)
Ah well. In any [...]
It seems this has been a long time in coming. 2.4.17 had a patch against it that allowed for this. From the 2.6.4 changelog:
[PATCH] md: Allow partitioning of MD devices.
From: NeilBrown
With this patch, md used two major numbers for arrays.
One Major is number 9 with name ‘md’ have unpartitioned md arrays, one [...]