[clug] Robust bootloader setups?

[Pietro Abate]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 06:00:59PM +1100, Michael James wrote:
> Given:
> A Suse system built on mirrored disks,
>  ( using md for software raid ).
[...]
> Comments?

If you've your root partition over raid0, and the raid array gets
stuffed you can safely (well, you need to be careful ) boot from one
disk only (ignoring the raid array), fix the problem, rebuild the array
and boot again using /dev/md0 as root dir. The "worst" problem I've ever
had was my /etc/raidtab (I know I should use mdadm...) in lost&found due
to a fs problem. I advice to use grub instead of lilo as it is much more
flexible in case of problems...

In my opinion you don't get that much from having /boot outside the raid
array on i386 where the software raid code is now pretty stable.

pp

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