I've not kept up on the progression of RAID support, so it's news to me 
that it is possible to boot from a RAID partition.  When was this made 
possible?

I still do it the "old" way, booting from a small non-RAID partition and 
mounting root on raid0.

~Mike.

David Laight wrote:

>>However, it's still not bootable -- my BIOS takes over, asking me to
>>press a key to reboot.
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>There ought to be a visible error message....
>Something like "Can't open /boot."
>Then a 1 second delay before control goes back to the BIOS.
>
>	David
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