From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Moshe Yudkowsky <moshe@pobox.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: In this partition scheme, grub does not find md information?
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:08:50 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18334.46306.611615.493031@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Moshe Yudkowsky on Monday January 28
On Monday January 28, moshe@pobox.com wrote:
>
> Perhaps I'm mistaken but I though it was possible to do boot from
> /dev/md/all1.
It is my understanding that grub cannot boot from RAID.
You can boot from raid1 by the expedient of booting from one of the
halves.
A common approach is to make a small raid1 which contains /boot and
boot from that. Then use the rest of your devices for raid10 or raid5
or whatever.
>
> Am I trying to do something that's basically impossible?
I believe so.
NeilBrown
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-29 5:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-29 4:44 In this partition scheme, grub does not find md information? Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-29 5:08 ` Neil Brown [this message]
2008-01-29 11:02 ` Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-29 11:14 ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-01-29 11:29 ` Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-29 14:09 ` Michael Tokarev
2008-01-29 14:07 ` Michael Tokarev
2008-01-29 14:47 ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-01-29 15:13 ` Michael Tokarev
2008-01-29 15:41 ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-01-29 16:51 ` Michael Tokarev
2008-01-29 17:51 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-01-29 16:16 ` Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-29 16:34 ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-01-29 19:34 ` Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-29 20:21 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-01-29 22:14 ` Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-29 23:45 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-01-30 0:13 ` Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-30 22:36 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-01-30 0:17 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-01-29 23:44 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-01-30 0:22 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-01-30 0:26 ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-01-30 22:39 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-01-30 0:32 ` Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-30 0:53 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-01-30 1:00 ` Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-31 14:40 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-01-30 13:11 ` Michael Tokarev
2008-01-30 14:10 ` Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-30 14:41 ` Michael Tokarev
2008-01-31 14:59 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-02-02 20:17 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-01-30 12:01 ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-01-29 16:42 ` Michael Tokarev
2008-01-29 16:26 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-01-29 16:46 ` Michael Tokarev
2008-01-29 18:01 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-01-30 13:37 ` Michael Tokarev
2008-01-30 14:47 ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-01-30 15:21 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-01-30 15:35 ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-01-30 15:46 ` Loop devices to RAID? (was Re: In this partition scheme, grub does not find md information?) Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-30 15:56 ` Tim Southerwood
2008-01-29 15:57 ` In this partition scheme, grub does not find md information? Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-29 16:37 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-01-29 16:57 ` Michael Tokarev
2008-01-30 11:03 ` David Greaves
2008-01-30 11:44 ` Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-30 12:00 ` WRONG INFO (was Re: In this partition scheme, grub does not find md information?) Peter Rabbitson
2008-01-30 12:41 ` David Greaves
2008-01-30 13:39 ` Michael Tokarev
2008-02-04 16:49 ` In this partition scheme, grub does not find md information? John Stoffel
2008-02-04 17:26 ` Michael Tokarev
2008-01-30 11:03 ` David Greaves
2008-01-29 14:48 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-01-29 16:00 ` Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-29 16:25 ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-01-29 14:04 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
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