I am currently dual booting Gentoo and Windoze on an SATA RAID 0. My boot
partition is installed on the RAID as the two hard drives are the only
bootable media I have in my system. I was able to get it going thanks in
large part to this topic on the forum:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-354878-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-0.html
I've been playing with Linux for about a year and a half and Gentoo is the
first Distro that I have been able to get to run on my hardware how I want
(or at all). I'm fairly convinced that with enough time you can pretty much
get this distro to do what ever you want, but this is besides the point.
Basically I'm just trying to point out the fact that you can run your boot
partition from the RAID 0 with no additional media required to boot.
From: Jarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:02:42 +0100
John Jolet wrote:
> I personally prefer hardware raid, because if you go
> software raid, I don't believe your /boot partition can exist on the
> raid. so each drive would have to have a /boot partition....or has
> that need been alleviated?
Not true. Of course /boot can be on raid too, but in case of linux
software raid it can be only raid1 (which in case of small /boot
partition does not matter). All other partitions can be in raid0,1,5...
Jarry
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