From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Reurich Subject: Re: md extension to support booting from raid whole disks. Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:21:25 +1200 Message-ID: <1240960885.18303.787.camel@ezra> References: <1240574900.4507.2076.camel@ezra> <18935.35883.181289.739254@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <18935.35883.181289.739254@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Brown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids > > So where does grub store the core.img in this setup? It's embedded after the MBR in the remaining sectors of the first cylinder. > > While the kernel might be noisy about large partitions, it should > just be noise - everything should still work - right? It add's 20 - 30 seconds to the kernel start up time, but yes it does work. -- Daniel Reurich Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd Ph 021 797 722