RAID/LVM Root Filesystem on SuSE8.2

[David Bandel]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:17:24 -0600, Mike Reinehr <cmr at amsent.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 February 2005 03:45 pm, A. Khattri wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, David Bandel wrote:
> > > Now I haven't tried other than raid1 and for /boot see no reason.  I
> > > also don't use GRUB (which, as I understand, doesn't play nice with
> > > RAID, not sure about LVM).
> >
> > Only because you would have to have RAID support in grub itself to boot
> > from a RAID device. Im using RAID1 with grub quite happily though.
> >
> 
>  Is there anyway to tell whether RAID support is included in a packaged GRUB.
> I'm using a Debian package, "0.95+cvs200406", that seems to work well enough
> with RAID1.
> 
>  Where is GRUB's RAID support documented. I called myself looking for it just
> a week or so ago, without any success.
> 

Don't know that compiling with or without raid support is the problem.
 The problem, as I see it, is in the different ways GRUB and LILO
work.  GRUB actually reads the disk.  So it has to understand the
filesystem and be able to read it.  LILO uses a pointer to point to
the start of the code on the raw disk and doesn't have to understand
anything about the underlying filesystem structure.  So LILO can load
the kernel off any filesystem, while GRUB can only do so from
filesystems it understands.

LILO has other features GRUB doesn't that I find useful as well.

Different strokes.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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