also sprach Andrew Reid <reidac@bellatlantic.net> [2010.05.07.1903 +0200]:
> Just for the record, it actually *is* possible to boot off a partition
> that's in RAID1, but you might have to use grub. The reason it works
> is because grub can read past the md-raid1 metadata without getting
> confused
Correction: the md metadata comes after the filesystem. That's why
Grub1 doesn't see it.
Grub2 (grub-pc) can interpret md arrays and is the preferred method.
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