Hi David, Karan

On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 09:43 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> David J. Malan wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I went ahead and set up OpenFiler 1.1.1 on an old Pentium III with two 250GB
> > PATA hard drives (one master, one slave), and, with the OpenFiler installer,
> > created 4 RAID-1 devices using the two drives as follows:
> > 
> > md0: /boot [100 MB]
> > md1: /     [4096 MB]
> > md2: swap  [2048 MB]
> > md3: LVM   [rest of space]
> 
> grub does not handle s/w raid for /boot in its present form, there are a 
> few patches available that bring this functionality in, but we're not 
> rolling that in till there has been enough testing.
> 

This is slightly incorrect. The functionality is there. When you
configure an MD device for /boot in Anaconda, and say it's a RAID-1
mirror device, it sets up grub on both the member disks. Of course, the
BIOS only boots one of them.

Mukund



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