Author: bryan hunt Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Dual boot Raid 1
On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 16:59 +0000, Mike Austin wrote: > I am about to embark setting up RAID 1 (mirroring) with two identical 1TB
> drives on my newly upgraded desktop. Although it is a bit more fiddly using
> Linux, it would not normally be a problem.
>
> However, I run a dual boot desktop with XP. I cannot see that I can do so
> having both Ubuntu and XP on the same master 1TB drive.
>
> In the past I have run dual boot using separate drives and think this is my
> only solution.
>
> As I can run up to six SATA drives, that is no problem My plan is to
> install XP on its own drive. Then I install Ubuntu as a dual boot setup on
> one of the 1TB drives and configure RAID 1 at the same time.
>
> Any thoughts from some of you?
>
> I would prefer just using the two drives as Ubuntu shares data files, which
> I would like mirrored, with XP. I need XP for some of my media applications
> as there is no Linux equivalent and they will not run in WINE, even the
> latest version.
>
> Mike
Is it hardware RAID, surely it is transparent to the OS?
If it were software RAID is it possible to boot from such a system?
Does /boot not have to be a file-system which can be read by GRUB?
