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 14:08:25 +1200 Message-ID: <1240970905.18303.1085.camel@ezra> References: <1240574900.4507.2076.camel@ezra> <18935.35883.181289.739254@notabene.brown> <49F79331.1050007@zytor.com> <1240963507.18303.866.camel@ezra> <49F79A0B.1000805@zytor.com> <1240965373.18303.929.camel@ezra> <49F7A2E3.4000908@zytor.com> <1240968482.18303.1028.camel@ezra> <49F7B162.8060301@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <49F7B162.8060301@zytor.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids > Grub2 can't be "fixed" with anything less than replicating the entire > device driver system of Linux in it, which is equivalent to turning it > into Linux. > Ok then.... So we need then to make mdadm --add hook into some tools that can automatically replicate the partition table layout and add each respective partition into it's respective raid volume, and install/replicate the bootloader onto the disk. Also then we should really have tool to set this up properly as well on the initial creation of the raid. -- Daniel Reurich Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd Ph 021 797 722