1Tools that manage md devices can be found at 2 http://www.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/.... 3 4 5 6You can boot (if you selected boot support in the configuration) with your md 7device with the following kernel command lines: 8 9for old raid arrays without persistent superblocks: 10 md=<md device no.>,<raid level>,<chunk size factor>,<fault level>,dev0,dev1,...,devn 11 12for raid arrays with persistant superblocks 13 md=<md device no.>,dev0,dev1,...,devn 14 15md device no. = the number of the md device ... 16 0 means md0, 17 1 md1, 18 2 md2, 19 3 md3, 20 4 md4 21 22raid level = -1 linear mode 23 0 striped mode 24 other modes are only supported with persistant super blocks 25 26chunk size factor = (raid-0 and raid-1 only) 27 Set the chunk size as 4k << n. 28 29fault level = totally ignored 30 31dev0-devn: e.g. /dev/hda1,/dev/hdc1,/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1 32 33A possible loadlin line (Harald Hoyer <HarryH@Royal.Net>) looks like this: 34 35e:\loadlin\loadlin e:\zimage root=/dev/md0 md=0,0,4,0,/dev/hdb2,/dev/hdc3 ro 36 37