On 31/01/14 18:02, Francis Moreau wrote: > Hello, > > On EFI systems I'd like to RAID mirror /boot partition. > > For HW RAID there's no issue since access to the disk or any > partitions should be totally transparent to the bios. > > 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. > Is that correct ? > If so does that mean I can't mirror /boot partition on EFI systems ? > Maybe creating a RAID device using the whole disk (not the partition > device) would work ? > > Thanks for your enlightments. > I can't answer your question as such, but in case you don't know VirtualBox virtual machines can be configured with an EFI instead of a normal bios. I don't know how complete the emulation of EFI is, but that might give you a quick and easy way to test out the different ideas. -- 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
