Re: grub with /boot on software raid

[Jeroen Dekkers]

At Sun, 28 May 2006 15:13:25 +0100,
James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> 
> Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> > At Sat, 27 May 2006 23:47:04 +0100,
> > James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Is it possible to boot a vmlinuz image from a linux md software raid array.
> >> I.e. Have /boot on the md software raid array.
> > 
> > Currently it will only work when /boot is RAID1. What I usually do is
> > create a small (~100 mb is more than enough) RAID1 /boot partition at
> > the start of every disk.
> 
> That is a bit of waste of HD space. I guess this is then a feature
> request for grub.
> 
> There are 63(31.5 kB) sectors for the partition space, so that should be
> enough room to fit a RAID read only driver for grub. That's assuming
> grub goes in the partition sector, and not the boot sector within a
> partiton.

My google Summer of Code project is adding RAID and LVM support to
GRUB 2. :-)

Jeroen Dekkers