On 11/15/05, Jiann-Ming Su <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/15/05, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I set up grub the following way. Hope its right. Is there some benifit > > to do it your way?? > > > > srv:~# grub > > Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. > > > > GNU GRUB version 0.95 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) > > > > [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB > > lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible > > completions of a device/filename. ] > > > > grub> find /grub/stage1 > > (hd0,1) > > (hd1,1) > > > > grub> device (hd0) /dev/hda > > > > grub> root (hd0,1) > > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd > > > > grub> setup (hd0) > > Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no > > Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes > > Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes > > Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes > > Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 16 sectors are embedded. > > succeeded > > Running "install /grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+16 p (hd0,1)/grub/stage2 > > /grub/menu.lst"... succeeded > > Done. > > > > grub> quit > > > > Hope this is alright? > > > > Test by disconnecting one drive at a time. If your system will boot > from either drive, then you have grub properly installed on both > drives. I reported this as a bug to the debian developers. I think > LILO will install properly on both raid devices. But, for some reason > grub does not, and you have to do it manually. You may have to resync > the raid array when you bring both drives back online. Also, I think > grub has to be installed on a ext2/3 filesystem. So, make sure your > first partition is ext2/3, hence a small /boot partition at the > beginning of the drive. >
Thankyou so much Jiann. Its working from both drives. I enabled boot from only hdd-0 in BIOS and it works. Then I enabled boot only from hdd-1 and it works. the boot partition is ext2fs and the rest ReiserFS --SIju
