[ale] SW Raid

[Chris Fowler]

How does grub or lilo behave with this setup if a drive fails?  Does the
system still boot.  I assume you need a /boot that is not raid?

On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 21:19, Jonathan Glass (IBB) wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 21:07, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > I have a question on installing Fedora Core 1 with Software Raid
> > I have a server with 2 128GB drives.  What is the best way to partition
> > the drives so I can do Raid level 1 via the MD driver?
> > 
> > Can root be on a Raid 1?
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> > 
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> Sure. Why not?  Just create the 2 Software raid partitions of whatever
> size (I usually do one at a time so I don't forget which partition I
> want going where), then click the software raid button and create the /
> partition.  Voila!
> 
> I do this for EVERY partition on my boxes that lack hardware RAID cards.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Jonathan G.
> 
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