Re: draft howto on making raids for surviving a disk crash

[Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 04:45:39PM +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:05:58AM +0100, Luca Berra wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:41:31PM +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
>> >Make each of the disks bootable by lilo:
>> >
>> >  lilo -b /dev/sda /etc/lilo.conf1
>> >  lilo -b /dev/sdb /etc/lilo.conf2
>> There should be no need for that.
>> to achieve the above effect with lilo you use
>> raid-extra-boot=mbr-only
>> in lilo.conf
>> 
>> >Make each of the disks bootable by grub
>> install grub with the command
>> grub-install /dev/md0
>
>I have already changed the text on the wiki. Still I am not convinced it 
>is the best advice that is described.
>
lilo -b /dev/md0 (without a raid-extra-boot line in lilo.conf) will
install lilo on the boot sector of the partitions containing /dev/md0
(and it will break with 1.1 sb)

for grub, do you have any doubt about the grub-install script not
working correctly?

L.

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