On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 11:27:56AM +0930, Ninti Systems wrote: > > Q1: Is it true that Linux can't/shouldn't boot off a RAID 5 array? >From software RAID it can't. USB storage devices (memory stick) are incredibly useful for this -- I've even booted a webserver from a digital camera ;-). The only catch may be the latency of the USB code when you don't want to use initrd: The kernel panics (no root dev) because it takes noticeable time before the kernel sees an USB storage device. But there are several tiny patches for this, it's merely a nuisance. -- Frank - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
