From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Subject: Re: RAID 5 questions
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 00:49:43 +0000 (UTC)
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By author:    Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@xs4all.nl>
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>
> On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 11:27:56AM +0930, Ninti Systems wrote:
> > 
> > Q1: Is it true that Linux can't/shouldn't boot off a RAID 5 array?
> 
> From software RAID it can't.
> 

Actually, it should be able to if the firmware can see all the drives,
AND you're not running it in degraded mode.  Obviously not a good
solution.  Use RAID-1 for /boot.

	-hpa