grub ignores my grub.conf

[Joel Uckelman]

Thus spake akonstam at trinity.edu:
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 04:45:17PM -0500, Joel Uckelman wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I recently set up a software RAID1 and since then haven't been able to get
> > grub to recognize my grub.conf. Now instead of the splash screen and a list
> > of boot options, I just get the grub shell prompt on boot.
> > 
> > After setting up the RAID, I did the following from the grub shell:
> > 
> > root (hd0,0)
> > setup (hd0)
> > root (hd1,0)
> > setup (hd1)
> > 
> > which should have installed grub to the master boot records of both drives.
> > If I set the root manually at the prompt and point grub to my grub.conf
> > using the configfile command, my grub.conf is used and booting goes normall
> y
> > from there.
> > 
> > Any ideas about what's going on here?
> >  
> > -- 
> > J.
> Why exactly are you saving the grub boot to the MBR of two different
> drives? 

As I understand it, this is so that the system can still boot normally
if the first drive in the RAID dies.

-- 
J.