On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Timo Schoeler wrote:

>> 	Other option would be to put in a small IDE disk on the internal
>> 	controller to hold the bootblocks and kernel, and the use the
>> 	standard RAID1 autoconfig to get the root partition and everything
>> 	else on the two big disks on the fast controller.
>
> unfortunately, this won't bring the advantages of a RAID1 -- as the boot 
> device is a SPOF then. (no, i don't plan to reboot the machine regurlarly, 
> but IMHO it's mandatory that if i have a RAID1 that it covers all 
> boot-related issues, too.)

 	You could burn a CD and have that as your backup boot device :)
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