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following up to my own message :)

To use a RAID root filesystem, I think you can use a boot partition.
Put the kernel and an initrd image on a small, non-RAID fs, perhaps
mounted on /bootpart. Setup LILO to point to vmlinuz and initrd.img
in /bootpart.

The initrd image would contain statically-compiled md tools, and a
/linuxrc script that inits the RAID partition and mounts it as the
new root.

Then, the only thing you have to worry about is losing your non-RAID
boot partition. :) Paranoid people could even create a number of these
boot partitions all over their boot disk. ;)

Jeff



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