[Wylug-help] Fedora, IDE and RAID

[Shaun Laughey]

John Hodrien wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Shaun Laughey wrote:
>
>> Hi Gary,
>>
>> GRUB doesn't do RAID as far as I know.
>>
>> I use RHEL which is similar to FC7 and all my servers have a /boot 
>> partition on sda1 and sdb1 and I mirror those using software raid.
>>
>> In addition I installed grub on BOTH sda and sdb.
>>
>> That way there is always a /boot and a boot sector with grub on it if 
>> I lose one of the sda or sdb discs and it will always be (hd0,0).
>
> I was thinking the same, up to the point where he said it behaves the 
> same
> whichever disk he removes.  Surely as long as (hd0,0) is still the 
> same, it
> should be happy?
>
> jh 
Hiya,

I think Gary hasn't mirrored /boot to the first 2 disks.

Shaun.