Booting and disk failure

[Libor Vaněk]

Hello, I'd like to ask about this: AFAIK there is no possibility to boot from RAID <> 1. Do you have some experiences with booting from floppy and then starting up (mounting system) from existing RAID? What I'd like to do is to make sure that when HDD with Linux fails, I'd like make the Linux to reboot, boot from floppy, detect that HDD failured and mount system from backup on other HDD (not necessary RAID partition) and resync the RAID with hot-swap. In other words - is there any way, how to protect system against failure of system HDD?   Thanks, Libor