Ross Walker wrote: > On Mar 7, 2012, at 11:02 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 9:49 AM, William Warren >> <hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com> wrote: >>> well ubuntu allows me to boot from MD RAID10...so there's something >>> they are doing that allows that to boot. >> >> That ubuntu version has probably switched to grub2. Good luck >> debugging it when it breaks - it is very different. > > Plus it is very handy to have a /boot that is readable/mountable without > LVM or MDRAID drivers loaded and configured. > > /boot is only 256-512MB partition that is read only during boot and > updated only when there is a new kernel, so it ain't no big thing. Even > when RH goes to grub2 I think I'll keep this setup by default. Don't make it less than 512M - we're debating between 512M and 1G here. Certainly, bleeding-edge fedora *needs* at least 256M *free* in /boot to do an upgrade in place, so I have to assume that's coming in the next few years for RHEL/CentOS. mark