Subject: Re: Can you boot direct from a raidframe partition in 1.6...
To: Jenkins, Graham K \[IBM GSA\] <Graham.K.Jenkins@team.telstra.com>
From: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/17/2002 16:11:07
"Jenkins, Graham K [IBM GSA]" writes:
> > > > 	The subject pretty much covers the question :) I know in 1.5.x
> > > > 	i386 you had to have a small partition with a kernel, but I
> > > > 	was wondering if this is fixed in 1.6?
> > >=20
> > > Since 1.5.2 (or maybe 1.5.1) you need a small partition only to hold =
> /boot.
> > > The boot loader can load the kernel from a raid1 partition.
> >=20
> This whole thing looks somewhat complicated.  Why isn't there an
> option during Installation for laying out root disk as a RAID mirror
> piece?

Cause no-one has written the code to do that yet?  :)

Later...

Greg Oster