On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 03:50:33 -0700, Linda Walsh
Holy poop, you are kidding? Lilo has no special support for booting from them either -- it sees them as 1 single SDA1 device as presented by the BIOS.
Lilo sees a BIOS device, that's all. The kernel that boots later does see more than one device. Want proof? Boot a rescue system that doesn't load the dmraid stuff and presto, you'll see the separate drives that constitute the RAID array. That's what distinguishes software from hardware RAID: in hw raid the systems only see the RAID drives you defined, nothing else. In a BIOS or an md RAID booting directly from RAID with either LILO or grub is only reliable when its a raid 1, i.e. when mirroring as it doesn't matter which drive the boot loader accesses. When you have a striping raid like raid 0 it's pure luck if booting succeeds. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org