I spent some time yesterday building out a UEFI server that didn’t have on-board hardware RAID for its system drives. In these situations, I always use Linux’s md RAID1 for the root filesystem (and/or /boot). This worked well for BIOS booting since BIOS just transfers control blindly to the MBR of whatever disk it sees (modulo finding a “bootable partition” flag, etc, etc). This means that BIOS doesn’t really care what’s on the drive, it’ll hand over control to the GRUB code in ...
