From: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
To: Michael Evans <mjevans1983@gmail.com>
Cc: Leslie Rhorer <lrhorer@satx.rr.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Booting from RAID1
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:15:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wcwo4d5.fsf@frosties.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4877c76c0912192243x5d7281begc9a94242d476a20f@mail.gmail.com> (Michael Evans's message of "Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:43:45 -0800")
Michael Evans <mjevans1983@gmail.com> writes:
> Advice point 2; which my howto should mention: For boot devices you'll
> probably want to use the 1.0 mdadm label format (not 1.1 or 1.2, which
> are the same but change where the label is stored) for just the boot
> raid 1.0 only. It will also mention some things you should be extra
> careful about...
>
> Like mounting the bare devices in that raid set by mistake.
>
> Oh, and you'll also very likely want grub to read the /boot
> filesystem, which is why it must be on a partition followed by the
> raid header, instead of a partition containing a raid header and raid
> protected partition. That use is OK since grub operates read-only.
How far is the support for all superblock formats in grub2?
MfG
Goswin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-21 13:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-20 5:34 Booting from RAID1 Leslie Rhorer
2009-12-20 6:43 ` Michael Evans
2009-12-20 7:07 ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-12-21 13:15 ` Goswin von Brederlow [this message]
[not found] <4877c76c0912200115q4c91512cj119ff23f7d662d16@mail.gmail.com>
2009-12-20 15:37 ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-12-21 0:39 ` Michael Evans
2009-12-23 8:21 ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-12-23 18:05 ` Leslie Rhorer
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