On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > hehe.. that's right, but if you look at my partitioning, > there's a /boot2 partition on the second drive where I > keep a copy of /boot.. even if master boot record is > gone with /boot, with a grub cd of floppy I can always > boot my system. But then you have to make efforts to keep the two in sync. It entirely makes sense to have /boot on RAID1. I'd say it's all upsides over your solution, and no downsides. jh