---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Another Sillyname <anothersname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 12 May 2015 at 14:11 Subject: Re: Installing Linux directly onto RAID6 Array........... To: Roman Mamedov <rm@xxxxxxxxxxx> Guys Don't want to use USB as the machine may sometimes be in a non secure environ, want to boot direct from Raid. Reading more think there may be a way.... https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Installing there's an interesting idea in there of effectively installing the bootloader onto every drive in the array...... On 12 May 2015 at 13:31, Roman Mamedov <rm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 2015 08:20:42 -0400 > Phil Turmel <philip@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > Doing something like that... and using network boot to solve those issues >> > >> > Last i tried grub2 could not handle a raid6 directly (could be changed now) >> >> You could also boot from a USB device, possibly one that memory caches >> its root filesystem (like System Rescue CD). > > Just place GRUB and the /boot partition with kernel and initrd on a USB stick, > the rest (root FS) can be on RAID6. That's what I do on one machine. > > -- > With respect, > Roman -- 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
