From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keld =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rn?= Simonsen Subject: Re: draft howto on making raids for surviving a disk crash Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:12:19 +0100 Message-ID: <20080207091219.GA7674@rap.rap.dk> References: <20080202194131.GA7875@rap.rap.dk> <20080206090557.GA19764@percy.comedia.it> <20080206154538.GC16090@rap.rap.dk> <20080207080503.GA7665@percy.comedia.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080207080503.GA7665@percy.comedia.it> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 09:05:04AM +0100, Luca Berra wrote: > 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 wrot= e: > >>>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 > >> > >>>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 convince= d 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) I think 1.1 Superblocks will break all boots with lilo and grub, but 1.1 superblocks are not standard in current distributions. When would 1.1 superblocks be a problem, for new users of raid? > for grub, do you have any doubt about the grub-install script not > working correctly? No, I think the grub description is OK. I only meant the lilo description. Best regards keld - 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