Re: So, it's up -- and I'm beating it, now about that boot..

[Dave Cinege]

Hardware Stuff wrote:

>    Grub can read from any normal FAT, ext2, or BSD, FS. This would include
>    a raid1 drive (which was what was mentioned).
> 
>    Otherwise the proper way to do root raid is with a small ext2 partition
>    (8MB) that is speced on the initrd line. (IE initrd=/dev/sda1)
>    and use grub to read the kernel off that.
> 
> There is no need for initrd.

There is no need but it is the best way. Maybe you misunderstood, but
you can spec a PARTITION as the initrd file.  The partition boots,
/linuxrc handles the md checks and start up, then sets real root device
and falls over.

lilo, rdev and such things are not dynamic and ugly as hell. They are
the best way to be left with an unbootable system.