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

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Daniel Reurich wrote:
>> Grub2 can't be "fixed" with anything less than replicating the entire
>> device driver system of Linux in it, which is equivalent to turning it
>> into Linux.
>>
> Ok then....
> 
> So we need then to make mdadm --add hook into some tools that can
> automatically replicate the partition table layout and add each
> respective partition into it's respective raid volume, and
> install/replicate the bootloader onto the disk.
> 
> Also then we should really have tool to set this up properly as well on
> the initial creation of the raid.
> 

Yes, it would definitely be nice to have this capability.  Whether or
not it should be done in mdadm or in some kind of wrapper I don't know
offhand.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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