Hello, On 10/01/2014 06:33 PM, Wilson, Jonathan wrote: > From what I can tell with UEFI I need to set up a UEFI partition with a > FAT format. > > On my current BIOS system I have a Biosboot 1M, /boot Raid1 200M and / > Raid 1 40G. > > Obviously Grub installs to the mbr, and then installs a bit into > Biosboot which can read raids, hence it can read and boot from /boot. > > Further, from what I can tell, into the UEFI partition can go either a > kernel & initramfs with UEFI support, or a "loader" that then loads the > kernel. > > What I am unsure about are... > > 1) Can the loader/kernel understand md raid? so the / can be in a bog > standard raid1 v1.2? > > 2) I'm guessing I would no longer need the /boot as that would be > replaced by what ever was in the UEFI partition? > > 3) as my "/boot" is currently in a raid 1 my life is simple, should any > changes occur they are replicated to the drives I have set up as /boot > raid 1, and I installed the mbr portion of boot loader manually on each > disk and tested pulling one, and then booting from another.. it > worked :-) > So I would like to keep things, if not simple, at least less likely to > have problems because I forgot to install duplicates of the UEFI on all > the disks... so can I use a .90v raid1 on the UEFI partition, then > format it as fat... so that all copies of what ever is in the UEFI > partition are replicated across the multiple raid1 disks, instead of > having to remember to copy what ever is in there manually to ach disk? > There was already a post on that subject you can find here: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.raid/45611 It might answer some of your questions. Bye. -- 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
