Problems with RAID on Edubuntu

[Daniel Carrera]

Jack Wasey wrote:
>> I admit I don't see the advantage of using removable media for boot.
> 
> Getting RAID 1 on boot seems to require lots of messing around, so there 
> is much more chance of a configuration error meaning that your 
> (resilient) RAID1 boot device will be unbootable. Better to have a 
> single normal boot partition, and use GRUB normally (benefit from Ubuntu 
> support and user experience, etc.).

Yes, that's what I did. I put /boot on its own partition and boot from 
it normally, no RAID.

> I always set up a second partition in the same place as boot on the 
> first disk, so that the physical location of data on the disks is the 
> same for the raided partitions. You could use such a partition as a 
> backup boot device by updating this backup boot partition with files 
> from your real boot partition (rsync?).

Now, that's an idea. I didn't think of that. I'll also look into booting 
from removable media. I can make custom Ubuntu Live CDs already, so I'll 
start form there.

Thanks for the info. I learnt something new today :)

Cheers,
Daniel.
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