Followup to: <20040801102430.GC28625@janus> By author: Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@xxxxxxxxx> In newsgroup: linux.dev.raid > > 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. > Actually, it should be able to if the firmware can see all the drives, AND you're not running it in degraded mode. Obviously not a good solution. Use RAID-1 for /boot. -hpa - 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