[linux-lvm] Fwd: LVM on ATA-Raid Working - but Poorly

[Jon Bendtsen]

Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "JB" == Jon Bendtsen <jon+lvm at silicide.dk> writes:
> 
> JB> True true, but then your boot device is software raid ??
> 
> Yes, but not on LVM.  /boot and / were mirrored (all eight ways, which
> I know is overkill).
> 
> JB> And lilo ??
> 
> It didn't have any problem; it wrote identical boot blocks to all
> eight disks, and would boot with the first disk in the system
> disconnected.  This was the first such server I built and I did it
> some time ago so I haven't tried with anything more modern like Grub.

Well, grub doesnt matter i use lilo myself.
How did you get lilo to write it to all 8 bootblocks ?



JonB