Hi guys,

would like to check if it is possible to have /boot on a RAID1 partition created on installation (software raid).

I used to do software RAID on the whole partition for both harddisk, using the inbuilt raid manager (redhat 9) and when one crash, the other won't work...

i have no problem using hardware raid on the whole partition though.

Just went through a crashed RH 7.3 system with RAID 1. Basically trying to boot the other drive my coworker kept getting a panic. We didn't have the install media and had wanted to upgrade anyway so went to RHEL AS 4. I saw a panic on boot after install using software RAID 1 there as well. On researching it I found the following that helped me get it going. It talks about additional steps for software RAID in grub to make grub boot properly.

http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache...ient=firefox-a

In answer to your question /boot is on /dev/md0 (RAID 1 partition) on the above mentioned server so yes it is possible.

hmm yah so i was wondering is it because of /boot on RAID1 that is causing it not to load properly when one goes down...?

and on top of that, i just setup a machine and am going to use LVM, but I realise i can't specify /boot in LVM. I suppose that's not allowed?

I don't think so. On systems I've installed that were large enough where Disk Druid defaulted to LVM it used LVM for everything EXCEPT /boot. It put /boot on a disk partition by itself.