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From: Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: what RAID levels does GRUB2 support?
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:19:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1233476393.3427.1.camel@fz.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20090201T014621-683@post.gmane.org>

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.

-- 
Felix Zielcke




  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-01  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-09  8:12 what RAID levels does GRUB2 support? Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-10-09  8:28 ` Felix Zielcke
2009-02-01  1:48   ` Dave Abrahams
2009-02-01  8:19     ` Felix Zielcke [this message]
2009-02-07 22:07       ` Wojciech Pyczak
2009-02-08  8:48         ` Felix Zielcke

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