Re: md extension to support booting from raid whole disks.

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"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
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