From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Small Subject: Re: Q: RAID-1 w/2x160GB, ReiserFS, Debian "woody", homebrew 2.4.25 kernel Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 13:32:18 +0100 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4110D752.80506@buttersideup.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > I have never tried to boot off of a 3ware raid, but to Linux it looks > like > >a scsi drive so I would imagine that it should work well. Someone else who >has actually done this for real is probably better suited to answer. > > Yes, this works. >I never use software raid for the partitions that need to be present at >boot, since I have had total nightmares with root mirroring on other OSes >(Solaris and DEC OSF), and I feel that backups of those partitions are >better than the problems one might run into with software root mirroring. > > I've had success with booting Linux from software RAID (including with drive failures), and if for some reason the boot loader gets in a knot, you can always use a grub floppy (since Linux software mirror partitions look like normal Linux partitions to the boot loader)... Tim.