[Wylug-help] Fedora, IDE and RAID

[Gary Stainburn]

On Tuesday 04 December 2007 15:40, Shaun Laughey wrote:
> 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.

Hi Shaun

I didn't think I would have to manually mirror it as it was set up with the 
RAID to start with so I though it'd just do it.

Also, if that was the problem, I would have thought that as long as sda was 
connected it would still boot. I'm at the bottom end of the learning curve 
here.

Gary
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