Confused about RAID on initial install

[David Woyciesjes]

Carl Karsten wrote:
> John Lyon wrote:
> 
>> My box has three drives - an 80GB IDE I'd planned on using as file 
>> storage,
>> and two 9GB SCSI drives I'd planned on setting up with software RAID, and
>> using for the OS.
>>
>> Except - it appears I can't both use RAID, and configure the SCSI 
>> drives for
>> the root file system.
>>
> 
> What you can't do is have /boot on a raid volume.  grub doesn't support it.
> 
> What you can do is trick it, but not using the installer.  What you end 
> up with:  grub on a normal partition that gets used for raid1 once the 
> OS boots.
> 
> ^CarlFK
> 
	Actually, you can have /boot on a RAID1 volume set. I did it last 
weekend with Edubuntu (5.10). The only catch is you have to use lilo, 
not grub. I put / on RAID1, swap on RAID1, and /home on RAID5.

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