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Re: Continue without install grub (y/n) confusion



On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
<bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> In <[🔎] AANLkTikgo1DmfxjA=nsLJ1CMxbwcER4c1nwqG7xm-Kbf@mail.gmail.com>, Tom H
> wrote:
>>"/boot" can only be on raid1 because the bootloaders need to access
>>before mdadm assembles the array and, with raid1, the bootloaders can
>>access one of the submirrors.
>
> I thought Grub2 was going to be able to handle (at least) RAID 5.  In theory,
> grub2 should be able to support all raid layouts that mdadm does, but it would
> require someone porting the relevant code from kernel-space to bootloader-
> space.

That's what I thought last December and I tried with raid5 but
couldn't get it to work.

You've now motivated me to try again...


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