Rejean Proulx wrote:
Does software raid work on a boot device?
I believe "not exactly." If you are using mirroring, it can be done:
google for how to, I think Dell has published on this.
Remember, the BIOS has to load the grub including its menu, the kernel
and initrd.
The trick is to make /boot appear in just the right place.
There is nothing to prevent you combining (say) hda and hdc, being like
drives and taking a slice of each as (say) ext2 of the same size,
installing grub & the kernel to hda1, grub also to /dev/hdc1 and at
convenient times (say on shutdown and kernel installation) just running
dd to mirror the partition.
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