[Gllug] initrd images & building 2.6.x kernels

[Nix]

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Mike Brodbelt mused:
> Nix wrote:
>> ... and running a root filesystem on RAID or LVM.
> 
> Pedantic point, but root RAID doesn't need an initrd. If the member
> partitions of the arrays are set to type 0xfd, and the kernel is built
> with RAID support and RAID autostart compiled in,

Ooo. Nice. Last I looked at it it needed userspace help to boot, but
obviously this is no longer true (I guess that's what `RAID autostart'
is, but I can't immediately see such an option in the Linux kernel
config; perhaps I'm looking in the wrong place).

> LILO and GRUB will both happily boot a kernel from a RAID1 these days as
> well.

But not a RAID5? Damn. :/

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