On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 23:24:31 +0800, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > The short answer is that raid 1 is the only kind of raid you can use for > > /boot . > > Not true. At least not when you're using 3ware RAID controllers. I've got > my /boot on a RAID 5 array. Maybe you are confusing RAID with LVM? No.But I probably should have been more careful about what I said. Legacy grub doesn't have raid support, so it will only work with raid 1 (where an element of the array can be treated as if it weren't using raid for read only access) or where the raid controller doesn't need support from grub.