[ILUG] Booting a broken raid array

[Frank Murphy]

Kevin Philp wrote:
> I am looking for some advice on setting up a small raid array to replace
> our current single disk system in the office. The plan is to have a
> small Debian server with three disks, two running and a spare, in a raid
> 1 array and then run LVM on top.
> 
> My question is about booting after a disk failure, particularly the
> primary disk. Where should I put the /boot partition, should it be
> outside of the raid array? can it be part of the raid array or can it
> even be part of the LVM groups?
> 

I have a small home server,
4 physical disks + 1 usb external backup disk(paranoia)
I didn't use lvm, just raid1

hda + hdb make up /boot / and /home (2x160gb)
which equate to:
hda1 + hdb1 (300mb) = /boot as md0
hdb2 + hdb2 (59gb) = / as md1
hda3 + hdb3 (100gb) = /home as md2
hdc + hdd (320gb) = /files as md3

works here in a small setup.

Frank