Philipp Thomas wrote:
* Linda Walsh (suse@tlinx.org) [20120823 03:26]:
Oh -- you meant linux-based sw-raid. SW-raids are included in many Dell BIOS's, no-hardware is involved -- just SW -- and they work fine to boot off of.
That's what is normally called fakeRAID as the BIOS only sets up the RAID drives and everything else is done by software. And it *only* works reliably with Grub when doing RAID1 i.e. mirroring. Grub can't boot reliably from striping sw-raids as it has no driver for that.
Just for clarity, there are two different RAID implementations to consider here. "linux-based sw-raid" would normally be taken to mean RAID implemented by linux and using the mdadm program and friends, with device names like /dev/md*. BIOS-based fakeraid is different. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org