From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: draft howto on making raids for surviving a disk crash Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:05:04 +0100 Message-ID: <20080207080503.GA7665@percy.comedia.it> References: <20080202194131.GA7875@rap.rap.dk> <20080206090557.GA19764@percy.comedia.it> <20080206154538.GC16090@rap.rap.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080206154538.GC16090@rap.rap.dk> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 04:45:39PM +0100, Keld J=F8rn 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 J=F8rn 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=3Dmbr-only >> in lilo.conf >>=20 >> >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=20 >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. --=20 Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html