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Good to know: Grub boots from sw-raid1 ...

Posted Mar 15, 2005 10:11 UTC (Tue) by kaeptnb (subscriber, #14098)
Parent article: Grub From the Ground Up (Troubleshooters.com)

Just wanted to mention that grub is capable of booting from a md-device (sw-raid), if it's a raid1 ...

Thats great, because otherwise you had to make /boot and e.g. /boot2 on both of you're harddisks, and somehow syncronize these whenever a new kernels comes into /boot...

Thanks to GRUB :)

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Good to know: Grub boots from sw-raid1 ...

Posted Mar 15, 2005 17:57 UTC (Tue) by stuart (subscriber, #623) [Link]

And LILO has been able to do this for years....big deal.