Re: RAID 1 and grub

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Richard Scobie wrote:
> A followup for the archives:
>
> I found this document very useful:
>
> http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2003-July/008898.html
>
> After modifying my grub.conf to refer to (hd0,0), reinstalling grub on 
> hdc with:
>
> grub> device (hd0) /dev/hdc
>
> grub> root (hd0,0)
>
> grub> (hd0)
>
> and rebooting with the bios set to boot off hdc, everything burst back 
> into life.
>
> I shall now be checking all my Fedora/Centos RAID1 installs for grub 
> installed on both drives.

Have you actually tested this by removing the first hd and booting? 
Depending on the BIOS I believe that the fallback drive will be called 
hdc by the BIOS but will be hdd in the system. That was with RHEL3, but 
worth testing.

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