Re: [gentoo-user] Booting from SoftwareRaid 10 with metadata > 1.0 possible?

[Jens Reinemuth]

Am Donnerstag, 7. Juli 2011, 16:40:47 schrieb Florian Philipp:
> You will still need metadata=0.9.0 if you want to partition the raid
> itself and then boot from it (e.g. create /boot and root on the md device).
>
> Please also take a look at the thread in [2].
>
> [1] http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?10196
> [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@l.g.o/msg111987.html

Ok, 

this helps a lot... as i have a big spare partition, i should be able to copy 
the whole system from the metadata 1.x raid to the spare one, create a new 
raid with metadata=0.9 and copy the data back...

glad i don't have to emerge the whole world again ;-)

thanx,

Jens