"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> >> Or grub2 could be thought to install itself into all MBRs of all >> drives in a raid set. >> > > ... which is obviously completely wrong, given that that would break the > whole RAID layer. Not if there is unused space for the MBR on every raid disk. The 1.2 metadata format leaves the first 4k free on every disk. > The right thing is to use a RAID-1 partition. > > -hpa And how do you create a raid-1 partition on a whole disk raid? MfG Goswin -- 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