Can Lilo boot a software RAID Root?

I don't believe any of them can.

This is a HW RAID, provided by a HighPoint RocketRAID card.

Thanks.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Federico Voges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 12:56 AM
Subject: Re: GRUB and ATA RAID


> On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 00:42:56 -0400, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
>
> >Anyone have any experience with the above?  I am having problems where
after installing Grub on a bootable ATA RAID array (this particular array is
a mirrored pair) I get the Grub level 2 boot and then the Grub "shell".  If
I type in:
> >root (hd0,0)
> >kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1
> >
> >everything boots fine....  WTFO?
>
> Are you using "hardware" RAID or Linux soft RAID???
>
> Anyway, my suggestion would be: use software RAID + LILO. Forget about
> GRUB. It's RAID support sucks :)
>
> Bye!
> Federico Voges
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