Wow did I pull a dumb one!
So working on this Gentoo box today and I setup the three 80GB Hard Drives that it has in a Software RAID 5. Small issue with that, once I was informed of it was painfully obvious, that GRUB can not read from a RAID 5 partition! Many hours worth of work all down the drain cause I don’t think about my actions. Live and learn, as long as I don’t do it again we shouldn’t have too much of an issue… I hope.
Really though, someone needs to make sure they note this earlier than the very last entry into the wiki articles that reference software RAID in Gentoo. Ok, granted, I probably should have read the whole thing before starting, but hey, I’m a technical guy, I don’t read the articles.
Off to go restart this process again, and this time I’ll try and make sure not to do anything stupid.