On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 22:08, David Morris wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 10:02:37PM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 20:05, David Morris wrote: > > > Once I have the system installed to the array (however it gets done), what > > > is the best way to boot? I've seen notes on passing 'md=...' to the > > > boot sequence, but that was always for RAID-0 or RAID-1...this still work > > > for RAID-5 (i.e. md=0,/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1,/dev/sdd1,/dev/sde1)? > > > > Lilo, and probably grub, can't boot from a RAID 5 volume. You could > > make a tiny mirror of 4 disks, and boot from that, though. > > That does make sense. as RAID-5 is a tad more complex. > > Do I just need the /boot partition out there (with silo.conf if a few notes > I have seen are correct), or do I need more than that outside of the RAID-5 > partition? Yep, that should be the only partition that needs to be not on RAID 5. Greg -- Portland, Oregon, USA. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
