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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: md extension to support booting from raid whole disks.
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:58:08 -0700
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To: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
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Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> 
> Or grub2 could be thought to install itself into all MBRs of all
> drives in a raid set.
> 

... which is obviously completely wrong, given that that would break the
whole RAID layer.

The right thing is to use a RAID-1 partition.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.