i don't know much about boot-loading or the actually binary size of RAID
drivers, but i would suspect that a driver to read striped RAID drives
might be fairly sizeable. you might have some issues squeezing all
requisite info into the MBR i would suspect..
but here i am again talking out of me arse...
--
stephen waters
amicus, inc.
Glenn McGrath wrote:
>
> Yea, i know you can boot raid1 because each partition is still recognisable
> as normal ext2 partition...
>
> I was thinking of raid0 and i guess raid 4/5
>
> Subject: Re: raidreconf utility
>
> > [ Tuesday, October 19, 1999 ] Glenn McGrath wrote:
> > > Ive been thinking i would like to try and hack grub or lilo to recognise
> > > raid partitions, im not sure how dificult it would be, but its a shame
> that
> > > the kernel supports boot from striped raid but no bootloaders do.
> >
> > lilo.raid1 patch from the RH 6.1 .src.rpm (which I've mailed multiple
> > times to this list) allows booting from s/w raid1
> >
> > James
> > --
> > Miscellaneous Engineer --- IBM Netfinity Performance Development
> >
> >
