Re: what RAID levels does GRUB2 support?

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Sonntag, den 01.02.2009, 01:48 +0000 schrieb Dave Abrahams:

> Sooo... 
> 
> * Will GRUB2 boot a linux system from RAID5 without a separate /boot 
> partition?

This should work yes.

> * Has anyone posted a HOWTO about that?  
> 
> I tried and failed to configure such a system.  I wouldn't mind being the 
> first
> to write such a HOWTO if I could get some handholding from this group :-)

There shouldn't be anything special needed. Just make your RAID 5 and
then do: grub-install "md0"
in case /dev/md0 is your RAID5 and then GRUB2 gets installed onto every
disk in the MBR.

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Felix Zielcke