software raid and grub on FC3

[Ed Wilts]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:30:18AM -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> If you don't know anything about Grub, 
> you are likely to spend much more time reading man pages and Googling 
> around, before you will be able to make simple configuration and place 
> Grub on the boot sector (provided you are doing this by hand, not by 
> letting Anaconda or RPM postinstall scripts do "dirty" job for you).

man grub-install

/sbin/grub-install

You can have grub installed in a few seconds.  
 
> >It is possible to install grub on both disks of mirror RAID - Google is
> >your friend.

This is actually a software raid issue.  The current software raid
implementation mirrors partitions, not disks.  The MBR is not a
partition so you're dead before you start.  What many people are
actually looking for is a disk mirroring solution, not a partition
mirroring solution.  They both have advantages and disadvantages, and
the boot block is the biggest disadvantage to the Linux approach.
 
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Ed Wilts, RHCE
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