Re: RAID & /boot

From: Markus Thiel (mtcobra_at_gmx.de)
Date: 01/14/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 20:37:33 +0100

> First, although GRUB can't boot from a RAID partition, LILO can. If you
> try to install SuSE onto a RAID partition, it will automatically use LILO
> as your bootloader, and give you a scary-sounding warning. It seems to
> work fine other than that, as far as I can tell.

sure LILO can boot from a RAID partition,
but the problem in this scenario is that the lilo boot loader seems to be
installed on only
one of the disks.
So if the wrong one fails you can't boot with the remaining disk.

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