On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:04:44PM +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > > > >Next, I tried both lilo and grub: > >Under lilo, I set "boot" to /dev/raid (didn't work with /dev/hda > >either), and root=/dev/raid1. It says I doesn't know how to handle > >device 0xfe01 > > > >Under grub, it says that /dev/raid doesn't have a BIOS type. > > > >Is what I'm trying to do at all possible? > > > It doesn't sound plausible to me - by definition, a boot loader is > supposed to be able to access the disk before the OS is up. This means > the boot loader must have, at least partiaily, the software RAID > functionality in order to do what you want. > > I don't think neither grub or Lilo do, currently.
I did not try this myself, but lilo has a file named README.raid1 in its docs, and google also finds some relevant bits. -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
