[Wolves] Chicken-and-egg situation regarding HPT372 RAID controller

[Aquarius]

Peter Oliver spoo'd forth:
> You could boot the system from a ram disk, insert the required module,
> then pivot_root onto a new root filesystem on your RAID array.  I use
> something like this technique to run my root filesystem under LVM.  Since
> you're getting your kernel loaded as it is, the boot loader must recognise
> the RAIDed volumes, and you'll be able to load the ram disk from /boot
> without problems.

Blimey, this is a bit hardcore, isn't it? I didn't think that the
pivot_root magic was ready for production prime-time yet?

Aq.

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