Software Raid On Boot

[John Summerfied]

Rejean Proulx wrote:
> Does software raid work on a boot device? 

I believe "not exactly." If you are using mirroring, it can be done: 
google for how to, I think Dell has published on this.

Remember, the BIOS has to load the grub including its menu, the kernel 
and initrd.

The trick is to make /boot appear in just the right place.

There is nothing to prevent you combining (say) hda and hdc, being like 
drives and taking a slice of each as (say) ext2 of the same size, 
installing grub & the kernel to hda1, grub also to /dev/hdc1 and at 
convenient times (say on shutdown and kernel installation) just running 
dd to mirror the partition.




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