booting from software RAID (Re: Software RAID issues)

[Alan Johnson]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Alan Johnson <alan at datdec.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Alan Johnson <alan at datdec.com> wrote:
>> I have a Ubuntu 9.10 box that boots a RAID6 with GRUB2.  I expect that is
>> very new, eh?
>>
>> So your Ubuntu does software RAID6 on the boot disks with / and /boot?
>>
>
> Um, certainly /, but now that you mention it, I'm not 100% sure on /boot.
> I'm pretty sure it is on there as well, as I don't think I split it out on
> this machine, but since it is a critical point, let me get back to you.  I
> have that box rolled back to 9.04 now because some video issues I had with
> 9.10.  Since this is the machine I have hooked to my TV, video is kind of
> paramount. =)  It used new drives for the 9.10 upgrade so I just need to
> swap them back in to see if anything is fixed yet.  It could have been my
> mother board.  It gets flaky when I max out the RAM at 4GB.  I have since
> pull it back to 2GB when I was reminded of the issue after going back to
> 9.04.
>
> Anyway, I'm hoping to get to that over T-day break, so I'll confirm /boot
> as well and let you know.
>

 Yep, it is as I thought on both counts.  /boot is not separate and the
extra RAM was causing the video issues I was having.  The machine works
great for Hulu now with 2GB of RAM, booting off 4 disks in a RAID6 with LVM
on top of that then ext4.  Again, that's using GRUB2 in fresh install of
Ubuntu 9.10.
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