RAID/LVM Root Filesystem on SuSE8.2

[Michael Hipp]

Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> David Bandel wrote:
> 
> | 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.
> 
> The only thing LILO does that I covet for GRUB is the "boot-next"
> feature.  I suppose one could script it,  but that's a one-off solution.

I thought I read somewhere that newer versions of GRUB could do this. 
Did I dream that?

Michael