From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: RAID 1 and grub Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:39:58 -0500 Message-ID: <47A5E04E.4050403@tmr.com> References: <47A0F4DC.9030005@sauce.co.nz> <72dbd3150801301641n2801846cgc2f3bc04aa842baf@mail.gmail.com> <47A13379.50703@sauce.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <47A13379.50703@sauce.co.nz> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Richard Scobie Cc: Linux RAID Mailing List List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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. -- Bill Davidsen "Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over..." Otto von Bismark