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

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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:58 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
> The right thing is to use a RAID-1 partition.
>

...or use a metadata format that your platform bios understands and
provides an int 13h vector.  See the new external metadata formats
supported by the mdadm devel-3.0 branch.
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