From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1FPGKZ-0005HY-UY for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:54:11 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FPGKY-0005Gz-Ct for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:54:10 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FPGKW-0005Gf-Rh for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:54:10 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FPGKW-0005Gb-NE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:54:08 -0500 Received: from [194.109.24.34] (helo=smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FPGMt-0003Xn-70 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:56:35 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (249-174.surfsnel.dsl.internl.net [145.99.174.249]) by smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k2V9s6J4013534 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:54:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mgerards@xs4all.nl) Mail-Copies-To: mgerards@xs4all.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <44209DCE.4070208@personnelware.com> <87d5gelv81.fsf@xs4all.nl> <44289B57.1010906@personnelware.com> <4428C79F.6060106@personnelware.com> <35063.195.113.21.150.1143545344.squirrel@secured.xercom.cz> <1143586032.3095.65.camel@vroomfondel.internal.datastacks.com> <1120.213.192.3.1.1143611287.squirrel@drak.ucw.cz> From: Marco Gerards Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:54:48 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1120.213.192.3.1.1143611287.squirrel@drak.ucw.cz> (=?iso-8859-2?Q?Tom=E1=B9?= Ebenlendr's message of "Wed, 29 Mar 2006 07:48:07 +0200 (CEST)") Message-ID: <87wtebgcrb.fsf@xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Subject: Re: software raid1 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:54:11 -0000 Tom=E1=B9 Ebenlendr writes: >> ... but grub loads the kernel and the ramdisk, and then the kernel >> executes the ramdisk. The RAID has to work (for reads, anyway) before >> then. >> >> -- >> Peter > > What do you mean work? Grub will read from one disk ignoring it is in RAI= D1, > in this case. And I don't know current implementation of raid now, but th= ere > was implementation where one must say to kernel by script (in ramdisk) > which partition is joint whith wich... But now there might be some > autodetection... RAID is more than just RAID1. Actually RAID1 is not that used that much in practise I think. Most setups I have seen are either RAID0 or RAID5. -- Marco