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


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