Re: Can squeeze boot into a LVM over RAID?

[Mark Allums <mark@allums.com>]

On 9/1/2012 9:51 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 17:42:45 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Can squeeze boot when / is on an LVM over RAID1?
> > > >
> > > > Can it boot if /boot is on the LVM over RAID1?
> > > >
> > > > Or when /boot is on a nonRAID nonLVM partition but / is on an LVM over
> > > > RAID?
> > >
> > > Yes to all three.
> >
> > Forgot.
> >
> > For Squeeze, not partitioned raid.
>
> And a partitioned RAID is
>
> (a) a RAID drive that has partitions on it? or
>
> (b) a RAID that combines paririnos instead of complete disk drives as its
> physical media?
>
> -- hendrik

B.

You can set up RAID on a set of physical disks, or as a set of 
partitions.  The former will boot easily with Squeeze, the latter is 
problematic.  It can be done, but not from the initial install.  You 
need a recent GRUB.  And an up-to-date  machine configuration, which 
should be no problem (refer to Shane Johnson's posts).