Anybody got FC3 installed on software raid-1 with Grub

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote:
> Hi, There seems to be a number of bugs relating to Grub not installing
> well on software raid-1 config. The symptoms seem to be that after a
> install, the system just hangs on boot 

I did, and it works great for me.  However, I'm using LILO (and 
sometimes SILO ;-) ).  I don't need fancy graphics in boot loader, LILO 
handles mirrored boot drives correctly out-of-the-box for long time now, 
and most of my configs are Linux-only machines (those few multi-OS boxes 
are also rather simple and trivial cases).  This makes LILO perfect 
choice for me.  Grub has some more features than LILO, but guess what, I 
never ever had need to use any of those.  So I said goodbye to Grub, and 
went back LILO road.

I've played a lot with Grub back in the Red Hat 7.3 days to get it 
installed correctly for mirrored boot drives configuartion (software 
raid-1 using Linux md).  Back in those days, Anaconda would configure 
Grub to be installed only on the drive where first submirror is.  While 
it is possible (although not trivial) to install Grub correctly on all 
disks that have submirrors of boot partition (and I have done it, and 
was using it for a while), using LILO in this type of config proved to 
be much more simple and more reliable solution.

I don't know if the part of Anaconda installer that hanles installation 
and initialization of Grub has been updated to correctly install Grub 
for mirrored boot drives.  Even if it does, I don't think I will be 
switching back to Grub anytime soon (LILO simply works so good for me, 
that I don't even consider experimenting with anything else).

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