RE: Root RAID and unmounting /boot

[Thomas Waldmann]

> The thing I TOTALLY don't get is if the first drive dies, how can
> you boot the 2nd drive (mirror) when you're still losing the small
> bootable partition (as it's still part of drive 1).

You can mirror that partition manually by using 2 dd commands - see one of my
earlier messages here (if necessary). As long as you don't install a new kernel
or change lilo stuff, the data on /boot is static.

> kernel, lilo config, relevant boot info > on a floppy and boot raid1 systems
> from that?

What if your floppy fails (happens more often than hdd failure) ?

Thomas

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