Dr Adam J Trickett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I will eventually get a new home server. For my own piece of mind I'll
> run the box on a pair of mirrored disks. Because I can't afford a
> seriously expensive hot-swap system with fancy hardware RAID controller,
> I'll be using normal cold-swap SATA disks and Linux software RAID (+LVM2).
>
> Most of the disk will be mirrored and then LVMed before applying
> filesystems, I was wondering about the boot partitions though, as
> I believe out of the box GRUB doesn't boot from a mirrored boot.
> I believe it's possible to create a mirrored boot though, any
> good tips or how toos? Or can the Debian installer do it all
> automatically on it's own thesedays?
>
Yes, the Debian (and Ubuntu) installers can set up a RAIDed system for
you -- but note that GRUB (and LILO) can only handle RAID-1 -- not
RAID-5 or other complicated stuff.
cheers
Chris
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Chris Dennis cgdennis@???
Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK
