Re: grub with /boot on software raid

[James Courtier-Dutton]

Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> At Sat, 27 May 2006 23:47:04 +0100,
> James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to boot a vmlinuz image from a linux md software raid array.
>> I.e. Have /boot on the md software raid array.
> 
> Currently it will only work when /boot is RAID1. What I usually do is
> create a small (~100 mb is more than enough) RAID1 /boot partition at
> the start of every disk.
> 
> Jeroen Dekkers

That is a bit of waste of HD space. I guess this is then a feature
request for grub.

There are 63(31.5 kB) sectors for the partition space, so that should be
enough room to fit a RAID read only driver for grub. That's assuming
grub goes in the partition sector, and not the boot sector within a
partiton.

James