On 11/24/11 17:11, Dominique wrote: > Ok, nothing like writing a mail to get intuition for the next steps.. > > First I simplified the initial setup. > RAID1 for everyone, and only two HDD to start. I'll convert and expand > at a later stage. > I also added an EFI partition ('bootgrup' if I remember well). I did > that on both disk. > Reboot and voila, it boots. > > But this kind of negates the RAID1 /boot logic. If the first disk fail, > then what ? No EFI, no boot ? > How - if possible - do you configure EFI to boot from RAID1 across xHDD > to allow boot in degraded mode ? Depends on how you create your raid - if you use IMSM raid, you can put the EFI partition on the raid1 device as well. Given you have a motherboard with an i5 processor, I would expect it to have support for IMSM raid. Check the BIOS settings for the drives - if you flip them from AHCI to raid mode you ought to be able to do it this way. Cheers, Jes -- 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