off-Raid file systems

[hendrik@topoi.pooq.com]

I'm planning to set my new AMD-64 system up with the bulk of its files 
on a software RAID-1 device.  Although there are now ways to get the 
system to boot from a RAID device, there are also warnings about the 
difficulty of using rescue CDs when things go wrong.  So I would like to 
be able to boot strictly from a nonRAID partition (preferably a reiser, 
but if there are tropubles with that too, let me know).

Presumably I would need /boot, /bin, /etc, and maybe /root off the RAID 
device, so that it would still boot if the RAID were inaccessible.  And 
I can probably place /usr and /home on the RAID.  What else needs to be 
on nonRAID partitions so that booting and using rescue disks will go 
smoothly?

-- hendrik