Re: SILO

[Fabbione <fabbione@fabbione.net>]

Hi Ben,
	for sure I will do that if I will manage to make it working...
not sure about the time since ss2 is a "bit" slow... thanks a lot
anyway.

Fabio

Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:45:37AM +0200, Fabbione wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >       sorry to ask and might be an offtopic question.. I hope no...
> >
> > Does SILO support boot on a RAID-1 software disk???
> >
> > I've a small SS2 with 2 hd and since I wanna run some small services on
> > it
> > atleast I wanna ensure a minimum of redundacy of the system....
> >
> > I will appreciate to know it before I will go and install it since SS2
> > is
> > not fast enough to permit me to "play" around. It takes too long time to
> > do nearly everything....
> 
> Yes, it does have RAID-1 support. Since the second stage boot loader is
> loaded much the same way as lilo loads a kernel (directly from the
> disk), then there should be no problems loading second.b off of a RAID-1
> (AFAIK). Also, the second stage boot loader does support RAID-1,
> although I'm not exactly sure how one configures it to do so.
> 
> I've gathered this from just looking at the source, since there appears
> to be no docs on the subject. It should Just Work. If you do come up
> with some docs on getting it working, let me know and I'll add them to
> the silo documentation.
> 
> Ben
> 
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