Boot from Software RAID5
July 23rd, 2004
How to boot from a software RAID5 array?
I just stumbled upon a this post to debian-user
I’ve just had success migrating Debian Sarge to root on LVM on RAID. Here’s an account of what I’ve done. I believe it could be of interest to both the debian-installer people on debian-boot and to the Debian user community on debian-user, hence the cross-posting to both lists; apologies to anyone subscribed to both. I’m not subscribed to either, so any replies please CC me.
Always on the lookout for creative solutions to this issue, I kept reading. The poster suggests using a pair of mirrored (RAID1) /boot partitions on two of the drives in your RAID5 array to boot from and mount everything else from a RAID5. Does this sound like a Good Thing?
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