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[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
> The Saturday 2007-06-23 at 07:58 -0400, James Knott wrote:
>
> > I've just installed SUSE 10.2, using RAID 5, on an IBM Netfinity x232
> > server.  I created one small partition for /boot, a RAID array over 4
> > disks for / and a 2nd RAID for swap.  I assume I could replicate the
> > /boot partition across all 4 drives and add them to GRUB.
>
> I think you should. Not only /boot, but also the MBR part of grub, so
> that
> you can boot from any of the four disks. I'm not sure exactly of the best
> manner to do this; dd could do, but it is not just a single sector, I
> mean, not just the mbr. And overwriting the mbr overwrites the partition
> table.
>
> (I assume you mean software raid, of course)
>
Yes.  It doesn't appear the SCSI controllers have hardware raid.  This
is on a cheap server I picked up recently, so I'm just experimenting
with different things as a learning experience.

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