On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, [iso-8859-1] Jakob Østergaard wrote:
>
> True. That's why you put identical /boot partitions on all the drives
> in your array if you want to be really safe.
>
i c
> > Wouldn't it be easier to stick the kernel, lilo config, relevant boot info
> > on a floppy and boot raid1 systems from that?
> > perhaps i'm missing something..more likely that not :-)
>
> Because LILO doesn't understand RAID, and thus cannot (yet) load the kernel
> of it.
>
but does it really need to?
can't boot=/dev/fd0 ?
create some sort of filesystem on the floppy and boot from that instead of
the non-raided partition on the dieable (for lack of a better word) drive
(holy run-on sentence batman)
maybe i should shutup and read the howto :-)
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