From: Tim Small <tim@buttersideup.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Q: RAID-1 w/2x160GB, ReiserFS, Debian "woody", homebrew 2.4.25 kernel
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 13:32:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4110D752.80506@buttersideup.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0408041423480.7382-100000@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> I have never tried to boot off of a 3ware raid, but to Linux it looks
> like
>
>a scsi drive so I would imagine that it should work well. Someone else who
>has actually done this for real is probably better suited to answer.
>
>
Yes, this works.
>I never use software raid for the partitions that need to be present at
>boot, since I have had total nightmares with root mirroring on other OSes
>(Solaris and DEC OSF), and I feel that backups of those partitions are
>better than the problems one might run into with software root mirroring.
>
>
I've had success with booting Linux from software RAID (including with
drive failures), and if for some reason the boot loader gets in a knot,
you can always use a grub floppy (since Linux software mirror partitions
look like normal Linux partitions to the boot loader)...
Tim.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-04 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-04 8:42 Q: RAID-1 w/2x160GB, ReiserFS, Debian "woody", homebrew 2.4.25 kernel Jens Benecke
2004-08-04 9:00 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2004-08-04 11:10 ` Jens Benecke
2004-08-04 12:25 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2004-08-04 12:32 ` Tim Small [this message]
2004-08-04 10:00 ` Q: RAID-1 w/2x160GB, ReiserFS, Debian 'woody', " Robin Bowes
2004-08-04 10:29 ` Mark Watts
2004-08-04 10:34 ` Tim Small
2004-08-04 10:37 ` Robin Bowes
2004-08-04 11:12 ` Alvin Oga
2004-08-04 23:51 ` Mark Hahn
2004-08-05 6:16 ` Jens Benecke
2004-08-05 7:26 ` Daniel Pittman
2004-08-05 9:20 ` Tim Small
2004-08-05 12:02 ` Jens Benecke
2004-08-05 9:57 ` robin-lists
2004-08-05 12:08 ` Jens Benecke
2004-08-05 12:38 ` Mark Watts
2004-08-05 12:49 ` Katarina WONG
2004-08-05 15:42 ` robin-lists
2004-08-04 10:28 ` Q: RAID-1 w/2x160GB, ReiserFS, Debian "woody", " Tim Small
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