On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, lfmarante@xxxxxxx wrote:
Hello every body. I have a question in regard of booting linux under a raid 5. It is possible ? All the guides that I found on the net say to have a /boot not stripped, (raid1 is ok). [EX: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml ] They say to have / not stripped too.
No. That document only says "The partition you boot from must not be striped". If you have a non-striped /boot, then that fulfils that qualification, as long as your /boot also contains an initrd that is able to bring your RAID5 / online. Note that GRUB doesn't know how to boot from a RAID1 mirror; it just boots from one component of the mirror. Best Regards, Alex -- 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
