Need advice on building a system with a Raid drive

Hi I am building a new system and plan to use two 300GB drives in a raid 1 configuration. However, I have read where fbsd can't boot from a raid drive, but it is not clear why. Can anyone confirm if this is a valid restriction? Will I really need a boot drive separate from my raid drives?

Re: Need advice on building a system with a Raid drive

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:23:13AM -0500, Jim Freeze wrote: Hi I am building a new system and plan to use two 300GB drives in a raid 1 configuration. However, I have read where fbsd can't boot from a raid drive, but it is not clear why. Can anyone confirm if this is a valid restriction?

Re: Need advice on building a system with a Raid drive

Bob Bomar wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:23:13AM -0500, Jim Freeze wrote: Hi I am building a new system and plan to use two 300GB drives in a raid 1 configuration. However, I have read where fbsd can't boot from a raid drive, but it is not clear why. Can anyone confirm if this is a

Re: Need advice on building a system with a Raid drive

I am building a new system and plan to use two 300GB drives in a raid 1 configuration. However, I have read where fbsd can't boot from a raid drive, but it is not clear why. Is that hardware raid or software raid? Hardware RAID there is no restriction as FreeBSD will see your RAID set as