vote for Lilo
Samuel Flory
sflory at rackable.com
Thu Oct 23 19:08:30 UTC 2003
Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Samuel Flory wrote:
>
>> Gordon Messmer wrote:
>>
>>> Don't put /boot on a RAID partition... simple. I don't believe that
>>> either Grub or LILO are going to work reliably on any RAID type other
>>> than RAID 1.
>>
>>
>>
>> Lilo in RH 9 works great on RAID1 arrays.
>
>
> That's what I said. Either Grub or LILO should work on RAID 1, but I
> don't believe that either will work with RAID 0 or 5.
>
>> Unlike with grub the RH 9 installer installed lilo to both drives.
>
>
> How'd it do that? I confess that I've not used RH 9 with LILO, but I'm
> not aware of any special directives that would make that work. Lilo,
> like grub is normally installed to the MBR of a drive. RAID devices
> will not include that, so perhaps you installed to the superblock of
> your partition? That should work with both grub and LILO, but both will
> need another boot loader on the MBR to chain boot them from their
> location at the superblock on the RAID partition.
With lilo you simply give it the md device. (example "boot=/dev/md0")
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Sam Flory <sflory at rackable.com>
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