RHEL + software RAID-1 with GRUB

[Ed Wilts]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 05:12:10PM -0700, Chris wrote:
> There is indeed a glitch with GRUB not liking to boot from software
> RAID partitions.  

It's important to note that software raid works on partitions, not
physical disks.  The boot block is not in a partition so there is no way
to mirror it using software raid.

There are pros and cons to mirroring partitions instead of devices.
You've run into the primary con.

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