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

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On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 10:36 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > 
> > And how do you create a raid-1 partition on a whole disk raid?
> > 
> 
> What you're asking for is a partitioning layer somehow hidden away
> inside md.  This is about as intelligent as Dick Cheney.  We already
> have partitioning layers, use them.
> 
Dick Who???  

No What I'm asking for is a superblock layout that allows the boot
loader to be installed in each member disk, so that the booting from a
software raid array becomes not only possible, but reliable and easy to
set up.

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Daniel Reurich

Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd
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