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Subject: Re: RAID 5 questions
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 10:27:02 +0300
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To: Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>
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Jim Paris wrote:

> README.raid from lilo-22.5.9 (the latest version) states:
> 
> "Only RAID1 is supported.  LILO may be used to boot a system
> containing other RAID level partitions, but it may not be installed
> on any RAID partition other than RAID level 1."
> 
> so I don't believe you.  You may be confusing "booting off RAID-5"
> with "having a RAID-5 root".

Hmm, I'm not sure how to convince you :-)

The only possibility I can think of is that the lilos.conf's 
raid-extra-boot= -line affects the booting, thus it's silently booting 
from /dev/hdX and not from /dev/md0. I'm not sure how to test this though.


BR,
Jarmo