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Subject: Re: RAID 5 questions
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 09:01:14 +0300
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Umm, I maybe writing on complitely different setup (can't check the 
original post), but our server with software raid 5 (3 disks) is booting 
with lilo just fine.


BR,
Jarmo


Jim Paris wrote:

>>Q1: Is it true that Linux can't/shouldn't boot off a RAID 5 array?
> 
> 
> LILO does not support booting off of RAID 5, and I don't think GRUB
> does either.  I usually make a small RAID-1 partition to boot from
> (mirrored across all four drives), since LILO does handle that just
> fine.
> 
> 
>>geometry = 2498/255/63, sectors = 40132503, start = 0
> 
> ..
> 
>>geometry = 39813/16/63, sectors = 40132503, start = 0
>>Is this an issue with software RAID? 
> 
> 
> No.
> 
> -jim
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