Hello,
I am having some trouble getting GRUB configured to boot from a software RAID
device. The documentation seems to indicate that software RAID devices are
supported and I've found posts indicating that people have it working, so at
least I don't think I'm trying to do the impossible.
I have a mirrored software RAID device, /dev/md0. It is composed of /dev/sda1,
and /dev/sdb1, with /dev/sdc1 as a spare-disk. My /boot/grub/device.map is:
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/sdb
(hd2) /dev/sdc
(hd3) /dev/sdd
When I run /sbin/grub-install, I get:
[root@pegmatite grub] /sbin/grub-install /dev/md0
/dev/md0 does not have any corresponding BIOS-drive.
I tried changing (hd0) from /dev/sda to /dev/md0 but that didn't work because
/dev/md0 really isn't a BIOS device. So I'm not sure how to get GRUB to
install on a mirrored software RAID device. I thought it should just work but
the Red Hat installer script couldn't make it work and now neither can I.
I'm sure there's a large element of user error here, since I'm experiencing
this problem on two different machines (a Dell PowerEdge 1300 machine that I
use as a workstation at work and a custom built machine, using an EpoX MVP3G-M
motherboard). Aside from potentially buggy BIOSes on both machines, the only
commonality is me :)
My grub.conf is:
boot=(hd0,0)
default=3
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
password --md5 XXX
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.17-0.1smp)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17-0.1smp ro root=/dev/md0
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.17-0.1smp.img
<other images>
What am I missing?
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