Ok,
I stand corrected. You are correct the new lilo _will_ work with / and
/boot partitions that are on a raid device. Thanks for setting me
straight.
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Tom Jones "ELVIS" May the Source
Red Hat Inc be with you!
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On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, James Manning wrote:
> [ Tuesday, October 5, 1999 ] Tom Jones wrote:
> > Yes. You can install root to a raid device during the install. However
> > you will still need to have a /boot that is not on the raid device.
>
> Actually, I don't believe this is the case.... With RH 6.1 you
> no longer need to keep the separate non-raid /boot
>
> The patched lilo that comes with Red Hat 6.1 includes the (extensive)
> lilo.raid1 patch that appears to allow booting from not only s/w raid1
> but also other s/w raid's as well. This feature was mentioned at a
> presentation of RH 6.1 last night and I was glad to hear about it :)
>
> James
> --
> Miscellaneous Engineer --- IBM Netfinity Performance Development
>
