grub ignores my grub.conf

[Tony Nelson]

At 5:12 PM -0500 8/21/05, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
>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 normally
>> 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? ...

My guess is that, in case he has to break the RAID for some reason, he
would like the remaining drive to be able to boot the system?
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