From: Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>
To: Ninti Systems <office@ninti.com.au>
Cc: RAID Linux <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RAID 5 questions
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 23:31:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040801033109.GA23032@jim.sh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1091325475.2374.11.camel@localhost>
> Q1: Is it true that Linux can't/shouldn't boot off a RAID 5 array?
LILO does not support booting off of RAID 5, and I don't think GRUB
does either. I usually make a small RAID-1 partition to boot from
(mirrored across all four drives), since LILO does handle that just
fine.
> geometry = 2498/255/63, sectors = 40132503, start = 0
..
> geometry = 39813/16/63, sectors = 40132503, start = 0
> Is this an issue with software RAID?
No.
-jim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-01 3:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-01 1:57 RAID 5 questions Ninti Systems
2004-08-01 3:08 ` Daniel Pittman
2004-08-01 3:31 ` Jim Paris [this message]
2004-08-01 3:50 ` Alvin Oga
2004-08-02 6:01 ` Jarmo Järvenpää
2004-08-02 6:08 ` Luca Berra
2004-08-02 6:55 ` Jarmo Järvenpää
2004-08-02 6:09 ` Jim Paris
2004-08-02 7:27 ` Jarmo Järvenpää
2004-08-03 20:23 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2004-08-04 8:52 ` Tim Small
2004-08-01 9:33 ` Luca Berra
2004-08-01 10:24 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2004-08-03 5:19 ` misty-
2004-08-06 0:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-03 14:29 Raid " David Greaves
2004-06-03 15:13 ` Guy
2004-06-03 15:50 ` David Greaves
2004-06-03 16:43 ` Guy
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