From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LTRTR-000669-7s for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:50:13 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LTRTP-000658-CN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:50:11 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LTRTO-00064w-0h for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:50:10 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39140 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LTRTN-00064t-Mj for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:50:09 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:57370 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LTRTN-0001po-De for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:50:09 -0500 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LTRTG-0000oH-LC for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:50:02 +0000 Received: from 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com ([207.172.223.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:50:02 +0000 Received: from dave by 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:50:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: grub-devel@gnu.org From: Dave Abrahams Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 01:48:23 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <48EDBCEA.6020507@wpkg.org> <1223540903.4139.0.camel@fz.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 207.172.223.249 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121622 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.5) Sender: news X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) Subject: Re: what RAID levels does GRUB2 support? 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: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:50:11 -0000 Felix Zielcke z-51.de> writes: > > Will GRUB2 boot a Linux system from such RAID levels without a separate > > /boot partition? > > the SVN version supports everything from the Linux Software RAID > RAID 0,1,10,4,5,6 and multipath which is just mapped to RAID 1 in > grub2's code Sooo... * Will GRUB2 boot a linux system from RAID5 without a separate /boot partition? * 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 :-)