On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Thomas Hertz wrote:

> My expertise in this area is severely limited, but I believe that it
> isn't possible to actually _boot_ from a raid set. At least not from a
> striped array, and possibly not from a raid-1 either. The bootstrap code
> needs to locate the kernel, and this would require that the bootstrap
> code itself had knowledge about the raid array, which is doesnt. Since a
> raid-1 is basically two mirrored disks this should be possible to work
> out somehow (and maybe it has?), but I think not.

RAID-1 is a special case, as each disk is a mirror of the other. They
(should) each match. Thus all the boot code is in the one drive we're
booting from, in a normal layout.

Take care,

Bill