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From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net>
Subject: Re: Installing Linux directly onto RAID6 Array...........
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 17:31:47 +0500
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On Tue, 12 May 2015 08:20:42 -0400
Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org> wrote:

> > Doing something like that... and using network boot to solve those issu=
es
> >=20
> > Last i tried grub2 could not handle a raid6 directly (could be changed =
now)
>=20
> You could also boot from a USB device, possibly one that memory caches
> its root filesystem (like System Rescue CD).

Just place GRUB and the /boot partition with kernel and initrd on a USB sti=
ck,
the rest (root FS) can be on RAID6. That's what I do on one machine.

--=20
With respect,
Roman

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