<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>I would highly recommend not using any FakeRAID with Linux. I've done it before (in order to dual-boot a workstation) and it was a real pain. If you're going hardware RAID, fine. But if you're going to do it all in software, you might as well just use the mdadm in the normal manner (it's really not that hard) and it will be more resilient if you need to move it to a new machine. The few bits in the ROM that the FakeRAID gives you really do nothing helpful.</div></div></div></div>
<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My primary concern is how the bios or Grub would handle a corrupt/failed boot loader?<br><br></div><div>I have had systems with mdadm/dual bootloaders and such and I have seen bios's try and boot a failed drive and just sit there.<br><br></div><div>I have seen bios boot a corrupt boot partition and really screw things up too. At least I think that was the problem at the point.<br><br></div><div>Sure once the system is booted mdadm can handle a bad disk or what not.<br><br></div><div>But what exists to handle a bad /boot or bad bootloader, etc. The stuff that is not protected by mdadm.<br><br></div></div>It always seemed like the FaikeRAID bios at least handled bad disks on boot.<br></div></div>