On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 09:58:08PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Or grub2 could be thought to install itself into all MBRs of all
drives in a raid set.
this is what is usually done on grub 0.97, tought implementations i have
seen do suck a lot.
... which is obviously completely wrong, given that that would break the
whole RAID layer.
why?
The right thing is to use a RAID-1 partition.
I see no big problem in reserving some space on all boot drives for a
smallish boot loader,
Maybe it is just a matter of defining an 1.3 metadata format which
leaves more room at the start of the device than 1.2 for this very
purpose.
L.
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