[rescue] So, I'm bringing up my E3000....

[Brian Dunbar]

On Apr 6, 2004, at 7:19 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> (partially because we ran out of heating oul and this place is an
> icebox.)
>
> Anyway, I'm bringing up the E3000 to install Solaris 9 on it.  Now, I'm
> quote familiar with the process for setting up a mirrored bootdisk on
> Solaris.  It seems a shame to waste two 9G Cheetahs on a root mirror
> though.  Does anyone know of a way to set up Solaris 9 to boot from
> RAID5?

I have .. for some reason ... the idea stuck in my head that booting 
from a RAID device is a bad idea.  But I don't remember if this is 
'folklore' or if there is a Good Reason why this is a Bad Idea.

~brian