On Apr 21, 2005, John Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm moving toward having everything important on RAID but I > still have a single drive for / and boot because of attitudes like this > that result in continual reliability problems with RAID in the early > phases of system startup. Nonsense. I've had pretty much everything, including /boot on RAID 1 and / on LVM on RAID 1, for years, using GRUB, and it does work. Sure enough, grub didn't pretend to support raid 1 like lilo does, and I had to set things up myself such that, in the case of a disk failure, the system would still boot, which lilo claims to do, but can't possibly do in the general case. I say lilo's claim to support raid 1 is convenient if you happen to have the common case that it supports, but if it doesn't, then you're up to grow a lot of gray hair for not knowing what's going on behind the scenes. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}