On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 04:54:22PM -0500, John Morris wrote: > Grub can only boot a RAID if it can own the > MBR which isn't always practical or even possible. And according to > seemingly authoritative postings during this flame-o-rama, this > limitation is known but not seen as a problem. I disagree, but > apparently represent a small enough minority that ignoring it is going > to be official policy. Oh well, sometimes you lose. Sometimes you end up writing it yourself and persuade the developers that it works correctly... I don't think it anybody decided that this wouldn't get done". OTOH it doesn't seem obvious to me how to specify the boot block location for a RAID volume. I think choosing the ">90% of cases" solution is a reasonable engineering decision, but not necessarily end of the story. Mirek