Re: Question about Raid/Boot

On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:29:42 +0100 John Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Dickinson wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 15:12:18 -0400 > > "Tom Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> > > > > Well, RAID1 mirrors the drive so /boot lives on both drives, but > > grub legacy (grub2

Re: Question about Raid/Boot

Tom Allison wrote, On 2-Sep-2008 21:12: I'm going to sound dumb, but isn't that just marking it bootable and then running grub on the second disk to set the grup boot files in place on the second disk? Yes, Gentoo has a good tutorial in its wiki. I used that as there are some 'special' things

Re: Question about Raid/Boot

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 15:12:18 -0400 "Tom Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/1/08, Claudius Hubig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From what I recall reading the logs at startup if I put my boot > > > system > > >on a software raid 1 it appears to bo

Re: Question about Raid/Boot

"Tom Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 9/1/08, Claudius Hubig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I got something very similiar to your setup and have to say - no, it >> won't. You'll have to make your BIOS boot from the second disk (and >> have to install grub in the MBR before) or use a rescue di

Re: Question about Raid/Boot

On 9/1/08, Claudius Hubig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From what I recall reading the logs at startup if I put my boot system > >on a software raid 1 it appears to boot from disk #1 then mount the RAID > >and finish from there. > > > >Am I correct so far?

Re: Question about Raid/Boot

Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From what I recall reading the logs at startup if I put my boot system >on a software raid 1 it appears to boot from disk #1 then mount the RAID >and finish from there. > >Am I correct so far? > >The ultimate question is this: >If I have a disk failure on