On 23 Aug 1999, Harald Nordg�rd-Hansen wrote:
> James Manning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > How come I've been running this for about a year and a half, then?
> >
> > I believe he's talking about not having to do *any* non-raid partitions
> > (ie your /boot I believe, reading your lilo.conf)
> > (...)
> >
> > Please enlighten if I missed the point in his, or your, posts.
>
> As I said, /boot resides inside my / raid0 set. There is no need to
> have non-raid disks when booting with lilo, all you have to do is tell
> lilo how to access the underlying data from your raid-set, i.e. the
> translation from /dev/md0 to /dev/sda1 in my case. And using the disk
> parameter of lilo, this is a fairly straight-forward task.
I wish I'd seen that explained alot sooner... it might have saved me alot of
trouble, because I certainly _tried_ to figure out how to get lilo to work
that way. I think "straightforward" might be an optimistic description of
the difficulty level. :-)
> So again, using lilo and very little magic, there is absolutely no
> need for a separate partition for /boot.
I'm still going to stick with grub because it only needs to be installed once
and then works forever, and it requires no "magic" after that - it just works.
Several folks recommended that I write up a mini-howto on grub booting RAID
1, and that's what I'm going to do.
Harald, it might help if you did the same thing for lilo booting RAID 1...
and then folks can figure out how to use either method.
-Andy
