On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Mark Ferrell wrote:
> I could be off my rocker, but I believe the answer your looking for is the fact
> that Lilo cannot correctly use a raid for booting. Typically I would imagine you
> would settup / as the mirror, and perhaps make a /boot that's it's own non-raid
> partition for kernel images and such, thusly lilo would be able to handle the images
> correctly. This is something I have done for a Raid5 / partition and it works
> fine.
With RAID5 that (LILO not understanding how to read a RAID volume) is a
genuine issue.
With RAID1, though, each root partition image is an intact and complete
partition, and should be useable by LILO. The only real problem is that
LILO refuses to use it at LILO install time since it thinks "/" is on md0
(or whatever) and it doesn't know how to deal with that.
If I could just find a way to tell LILO that md0 is actually sda0, I think
LILO would be able to boot RAID1.
-Andy
