Replacing disk in Linux Software RAID 1

[Angela Kahealani]

On Wednesday 2004-08-18 03:35, jludwig wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 11:26, Robin Laing wrote:
> > Michael Mansour wrote:
> > >>Would it be possible to write the MBR to the second
> > >>disk just in case?
> > >>Robin Laing
> > > Yes, I've tested this by removing the first drive and
> > > writing grub to the MBR of the second drive and it did
> > > work fine, although when putting the first drive back
> > > in there then I had the issue with two MBR's which got
> > > things a little confused.
> > > Basically, what I learnt from that saga is that grub
> > > should only reside on one drive.
> > > Michael.
> > I feel it should be there.  Now if you do write it to the second
> > disk and you have problems, this could be a problem.
> (I used to do this with SCSI and IDE for a duel boot system.)
> jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>

so, the problem is duelling MBRs confusing GRUB?

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