On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Alvin Starr wrote: > > Are there plans for making raid1 bootable? > > It would seem that the autostart feature of the raid system would qualify > to allow for bootable raid1. I have not cheked it yet but it looks as > though the raid subsystem is started before any file systems are mounted. 'booting the kernel' and 'mounting root' are two steps to boot Linux. While you can do the second step with the RAID code, you cannot do the first one. Booting the kernel is very much system dependent (BIOS, LILO, SILO, etc.), which has to be extended to support Linux RAID. -- mingo
