Bootable RAID 1 array with Hoary?

[Peter Lieverdink]

volvoguy wrote:
> [...]
> 
> If everything I said IS right, my question boils down to this: Can
> Hoary (with Grub) boot off the array itself, or will I need to point
> Grub at just one of the disks in the array (/dev/sda1 for example)?

I don't know. But LILO can, of that I am certain, as I use it. (Standard
precompiled kernel with initrd)

Here are the relevant entries from my lilo.conf:

boot=/dev/md0
root=/dev/md0
raid-extra-boot=/dev/hdb,/dev/hdc

/dev/md0 is 2x78GB a raid1 array using /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdc1.

The raid-extra-boot is the clincher here; it tells lilo these disks form
part of an array and BOTH need boot records.

- P.