You can boot from your raid 5 if you want to... but that's just bad juju waiting to happen IMO. Especially since I'm running a software raid on PATA drives (eek, I know, WAY cheaper though).<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joe Ripley</b> <<a href="mailto:vitaminjoe@gmail.com">vitaminjoe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 10/18/07, Sean Goodpasture <<a href="mailto:goofygrin@gmail.com">goofygrin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>> Nice thing about unraid is that it boots off a memory stick, so no need for<br>> another drive (which would cost more and take up space in the box).<br><br>My system isn't nearly as large (only 1.5 TB), however, I just wanted
<br>to mention that you don't need a dedicated drive just for booting when<br>using software RAID. I usually make my boot drive a RAID1 across all<br>of my installed disks, just to make sure the system can boot in the
<br>event of multiple drive failure.<br><br>Since you're a Gentoo guy, the wiki has a good explanation on how to<br>boot from the RAID:<br><a href="http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_Install_on_Software_RAID">http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_Install_on_Software_RAID
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