Can you make a boot floppy and use that? That's what I do. If you
create a normal partion on one of your drives for /boot, then you
really haven't gained much by using a fault-tolerant raid (I realize
you are using raid-0, not 3,5,etc. I'm speaking generally). I.e., if
the drive fails with the /boot, then you are stuck. I don't think
I've ever had a floppy drive die or wear out, but I have had floppies
die. Just make a few boot floppies to cover the case of a broken
floppy, and you should be set. Remember: a boot floppy is read once
when the machine starts up to put the kernel into RAM, so there isn't
much risk (imho).
Phil
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 08:22:02AM -0700, Kirk Patton wrote:
> Is it possible to boot from a raid 0 array using linux 2.3.99-pre3?
>
> I followed the Software-Raid-HOWTO and the array works o.k. until I
> try to boot from it.
>
> I created a seperate /boot non-raid. I update the /etc/lilo.conf per
> the instructions to point the root file system to the raid device.
>
> After booting, the raid device initializes, but then I get errors
> that say something about a block device.
>
> I am using a promise UDMA controller in conjunction with a EPOX k7 MB.
> I am using the experimental promise driver, so I do not know if I am
> doing something incorrectly or if I have run into a bug.
>
> does anyone know if booting from a raid 0 parititon should cause me
> any problems using 2.3.99-pre3?
>
> Thanks,
> Kirk
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