Followup: Lack of support for soft RAID

[Phillip Susi]

You can get the boot loader partition mirrored yes, but the bios won't 
boot from the non primary mirror if the primary one develops a bad 
sector.  You have to intervene by either telling the bios to use the 
other disk, or yanking out the primary.

Scott Dier wrote:
> Phillip Susi wrote:
>>  or from a degraded
>> raid1/raid5 without manual intervention.
> 
> Not true in the raid1 case, there are multiple ways to configure this 
> with grub or lilo.
>