Grub issue / resolution that worked for me

[Daniel Lawson]

Bruno Wolff III wrote:

>I am running FC2 with software raid 1 (2 disks, 3 partions each).
>
>I had been only able to boot off of hde. In order to feel that
>I would be able to boot off hdg if hde went south I decided to try
>to fix this. But it turned out to be a lot harder than I expected.
>  
>

As well as the steps you suggested, read the following:

http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2003-July/014331.html

The one thing it does differently is tell grub that (hd0) is actually 
your second disk, before you install grub to the second disk.

This fixes the problem where if you remove /dev/hde, /dev/hdg actually 
becomes (hd0) - you've got it set up as being (hd1). The extra steps 
contained in that url tell grub to believe that (hd0) is actually 
pointing at /dev/hdg


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Daniel Lawson
WAND Group, Computer Science Department
University of Waikato
email: daniel at wand.net.nz 	phone: +64 7 838 4466  ext 6254