Before I start rejigging the Ubuntu live CD I thought I'd see if anyone knew of
an alternative that may save me some time. What I'm looking for a is a boot CD
that has RAID and LVM support built in. Ideally it would automatically detect
the RAID and mount any partitions on there, including any on LVM, but I don't
mind a bit of manual work.
Being specific to my particular install, as opposed to thinking more
generically, I have /boot and swap on RAID mirrors and the remaining /, /var,
/home, and so on, on LVM on a third RAID mirror. What I want to have is a
bootable CD that I can use to read the drives (even if one is dead) to access
any data. This is an extra level of recovery capability over standard backups -
and a precautionary measure since everything is working fine at the moment.
I've just tried a Knoppix CD, but sadly that won't boot (I need to explore the
VGA drivers), and I'll probably look at Morphix before starting any custom
builds.
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