At Sun, 28 May 2006 15:13:25 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > > Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > At Sat, 27 May 2006 23:47:04 +0100, > > James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Is it possible to boot a vmlinuz image from a linux md software raid array. > >> I.e. Have /boot on the md software raid array. > > > > Currently it will only work when /boot is RAID1. What I usually do is > > create a small (~100 mb is more than enough) RAID1 /boot partition at > > the start of every disk. > > That is a bit of waste of HD space. I guess this is then a feature > request for grub. > > There are 63(31.5 kB) sectors for the partition space, so that should be > enough room to fit a RAID read only driver for grub. That's assuming > grub goes in the partition sector, and not the boot sector within a > partiton.
My google Summer of Code project is adding RAID and LVM support to GRUB 2. :-) Jeroen Dekkers _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
