Mirroring /boot with s/w RAID

[Christopher K. Johnson]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>You should only need to tweak the install on the second disk when
>you tweak it on the first, e.g. after installing a new version of grub
>due to an OS update. Or am I missing something?
>
>Paul.
>  
>
Correct.  Grub, unlike LILO, embeds only disk and partition info in the 
MBR with some boot loader stages.  It uses its knowledge of filesystems 
to  find the configuration file and files referenced by it.  LILO by 
contrast embeds the boot choices and the block address of the kernel and 
initrd for each entry.

Because of these differences this procedure only needs to be repeated if 
you change which partition contains the /boot files, or if you install a 
different version of Grub as Paul suggested, or if you replace a disk.

Chris

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