On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Admin Mailing Lists wrote:
> 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). Of course you can put
> this bootable partition on a seperate drive, but you still dont have the
> redundancy because THAT drive can die.
You forget your option of having a small bootable partition on each of the
drives composing the raid array, which is how it's done. Or used to be,
before the lilo.raid1 patch was produced to let us boot off a raided
partition.
> Wouldn't it be easier to stick the kernel, lilo config, relevant boot info
> on a floppy and boot raid1 systems from that?
> perhaps i'm missing something..more likely that not :-)
Where's the redundancy with a single floppy?
k
