[CLUE-Tech] RAID 1 on Linux

[Keith Hellman]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:46:34PM -0700, Carl Schelin wrote:

> The new installation required that /boot be a regular
> slice rather than a raid partition. I believe that's
> because it's not compiled in to the kernel but a
> module. A regular partition will let it boot and load
> the module which then lets it read and mount the
> /dev/md partitions.

Could it be that your bootloader (grub, lilo, ...) can't read /boot when
it is a raid block device?

I'm not sure how much the kernel actually reads from /boot.  I'm pretty
sure I've set up systems that don't even *mount* /boot, but the kernel
(and the system) come up just fine.

Come to think of it, the same works AOK when you boot a box off of a
tftp'd kernel.  The more I think about it the more I think just the
bootloader uses /boot.
 

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