Re: Soft RAID and EFI systems

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Hi Martin,

On 02/01/2014 11:04 PM, Martin Wilck wrote:
> Hi Francis,
> 
>> For Fake RAID, I'm not sure but I would say that the bios is able to
>> read the RAID metadata as well.
>> For (md) Soft RAID, I don't know. I would say that the bios is
>> unlikely to understand the md metadata stored in the /boot partition
>> so it won't work.
> 
> there is no big difference between EFI and legacy systems in this area.

Well  the main difference I can see is that EFI firmwares access a
filesystem where as BIOS doesn't in order to load  the bootloader.

In the case of BIOS you can still rely on a bootloader such as grub to
access a partition with MD RAID on it.

Thanks

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