Can you boot from software Raid 0?

[computerpro3]

I am looking at possibly buying a Thinkpad T61 and putting two Mtron SSD drives in it. The thinkpad does not have hardware raid capability between it's two hard drive ports.

I was thinking of using software raid 0 (SSD's are very reliable and nothing critical would be on the laptop anyway), and getting 200mb/s read and 180mb/s write on a laptop would just be incredible (reviews show that the ssd's scale 100%).

However, I started wondering how it would be possible for there to be any speed increases upon bootup if the raid is handled via the OS? Furthermore, if I am thinking about this correctly, could you even boot from it as the bios won't see it?

I tried googling but just found stuff about raid 1 mostly.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[xxEIEIOxx]

However, I started wondering how it would be possible for there to be any speed increases upon bootup if the raid is handled via the OS? Furthermore, if I am thinking about this correctly, could you even boot from it as the bios won't see it?

I tried googling but just found stuff about raid 1 mostly.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

I think you answered your own question here. No, you cannot boot from an array created by the OS, as you have to install the OS to create the array. You would need something bootable by the BIOS to go any further with this.