vote for Lilo

[dsavage at peaknet.net]

On Tuesday October 21, 2003 Gordon Messmer <yinyang at eburg.com> 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.

Just for the sake of clarity, you *are* discussing software RAID, aren't
you? With firmware cards (e.g., AMI MegaRAID), Linux will boot from any
RAID level you choose with either LILO or GRUB.

--Doc Savage
  Fairview Heights, IL