grub ignores my grub.conf
Joel Uckelman
uckelman at nomic.net
Mon Aug 22 17:49:11 UTC 2005
Thus spake Brian Gaynor:
> On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 16:59 -0500, Joel Uckelman wrote:
> > Thus spake akonstam at trinity.edu:
> > > 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.
>
> You are correct, you want to do this so you can boot the second drive in
> the event the first drive fails. It's too bad GRUB doesn't do this
> automatically.
Any idea why what I did failed, though? I think my question (about why my
grub.conf is being ignored) was sidetracked by the discussion of installing
grub on multiple drives.
--
J.
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