The way I worked around this is to boot off of a USB stick.So grub is installed on the USB stick, reads the kernel and the initrd from it, the initrd brings up the disk, the raid, the dm-crypt and the lvm, mounts / from the lvm and boots it.
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Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:19:23 +0200
From: lfmarante@xxxxxxx
Subject: Software Raid 5 work on ROOT ?
To: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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. And these guide show to have an raid 1 boot and / and create a LVM volume for /usr /opt /var /whatever that can be raid 5.It is not easiest to have directly / in raid 5 format ? If it's possible I would prefere to have raid 5 / There any particular configuration for grub to boot it? Thanks in advance. -- 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
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