> It would get worse, as in many situations the installer would succeed, > and the boot would fail. Many raid 5/6 configurations will spread over > controllers, and not BIOS supports booting over several controllers. > Then we teach the bootloaders installer to detect whether all the member disks are on the same controller, and refuse to install (or atleast warn at that point) if not. That being said, I don't know whether grub2 is smart enough yet to probe all the controllers for disks, not just the ones accessible via int13. If this is the case then this particular failure mode is reduced to only being an issue on unsupported controllers. -- Daniel Reurich Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd Ph 021 797 722 -- 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