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From: "Guy Watkins" <linux-raid@watkins-home.com>
To: 'Linux RAID' <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Upgraded grub, now confused about mirrored /boot
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:11:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9770F687FAE544F295B1A22155F2BBA6@m5> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CCF65F3.3040307@anonymous.org.uk>

Hello,

	I upgraded my system from Red Hat FC10 to FC11.  The instructions
say to run this command:
/sbin/grub-install BOOTDEVICE

And if it fails, run this:
/sbin/grub-install --recheck /dev/sda

However, my boot disk (/boot) is mirrored on 4 disks and I think (or hope)
all 4 are bootable.  The mirrors were created at install time many years ago
when I installed FC5.  No idea if it really made more than 1 bootable.  I
have assumed that if sda failed, I could still boot from sdb, sdc or sdd.
And I do understand that I might need to remove sda first, depending on the
type of failure.  Lucky for me, no drive has failed yet and I don't recall
if I tested booting off of any other disks.

I do have this on the kernel line:
md-mod.start_dirty_degraded=1

So, what do I do now?  Run that command on all 4 disks?  Or run it on
/dev/md0?

Oh, 4 way mirror is not because I am paranoid.  I have 4 disks partitioned
alike, so I figured I would use all 4 disks just for the symmetry.  OCD
maybe, but not paranoid.  :)

# df -k /boot
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0                256586    221526     21812  92% /boot

md0 : active raid1 sdd1[0] sda1[3] sdc1[2] sdb1[1]
      264960 blocks [4/4] [UUUU]
      bitmap: 0/33 pages [0KB], 4KB chunk

Thanks,
Guy


  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-02  6:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-31 13:41 reshape success story Florian Dazinger
2010-10-31 14:19 ` John Robinson
2010-10-31 15:46   ` Neil Brown
2010-11-02  1:14     ` John Robinson
2010-11-02  6:11       ` Guy Watkins [this message]
2010-11-02 14:20         ` Upgraded grub, now confused about mirrored /boot Leslie Rhorer
2010-11-02 15:23         ` John Robinson
2010-11-05  1:42           ` Guy Watkins
2010-11-03  3:11       ` reshape success story Neil Brown

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