Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:

>>     And what about RAID? I need it. And I like also Reiserfs, maybe
>> not the fastest but rock-solid; is it supported by Lilo?

>
> Wait a minute. Couldn't you have an ext4 root directory, and have all
> data on RAID mounts?

Doesn't need that, it just needs a /boot partition that the bootloader can cope with, and enough on that (eg an initrd and/or suitably built kernel) to then deal with everything else. And as has been pointed out already, if you stick with the old metadata format for md raid1 then your bootloader can use any member of the raid set (it's read-only access) to load the files since each member is a complete image of the raid volume.

So yes, LILO will support raid and ReiserFS - as long as you have a /boot partition that's md raid 1 using the old (v0.9) metadata, and using a filesystem (eg ext2/3) that the LILO "compiler' understands.

There are options, and I suspect that the people saying "I need X, Y and Z" will mostly have the skills to deal with this - perhaps with some friendly pointers.