On 28 Jun, 13:03, Jean-David Beyer <jeandav...@verizon.net> wrote:

> Why not put /boot on a non-raid drive, and everything else on the RAID? This
> might be the simplest solution. A small drive would be enough (25 megabytes,
> if you can get one that small). And you could use the rest of the space for
> low priority stuff if you wanted to.

This can be..... fraught. For example, many el cheapo IDE controllers,
and drivers with them, re-order the devices at odd moments. The
published add-on drivers for Promise controllers, for years, had a
hard-coded setting of switching the /dev/hde and /dev/hdf drives to
look like /dev/hda and /dev/hdb, to try and force the Promise managed
drives to be seen first.

Ye ghods, those things were *awful*. It's why I try to get 3Ware and
Adaptec controllers these days: more robust, more supported, and more
consistent in their quality and behavior.