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"I forgot to run LILO"

"I forgot to run LILO"

Posted Dec 13, 2010 15:26 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: "I forgot to run LILO" by dlang
Parent article: Getting grubby with ZFS

... partitions on RAID arrays...

Not being able to boot off LVM might be annoying, as LILO can boot off LVM as long as it's not also RAIDed, but not being able to boot off any live RAID-1 partition would be a killer.

(disclaimer: horrible flu so have not even looked at gujin, preferring to randomly pontificate: this *is* the internet).


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"I forgot to run LILO"

Posted Dec 15, 2010 10:45 UTC (Wed) by etienne (subscriber, #25256) [Link]

Well, you can boot RAID-1 if the partition type is not set to "linux raid auto" - but I bet that is not the answer you want.
Dectecting RAID would not be difficult - after all Gujin already open filesystems inside ISO/FAT/Ext*fs filesystem images, just time needed to code and test - patch welcomed.

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