grub ignores my grub.conf

akonstam at trinity.edu akonstam at trinity.edu
Mon Aug 22 21:23:06 UTC 2005


On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 12:49:11PM -0500, Joel Uckelman wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- 
Ok, i diverted us. Can you show us your grub.conf file?
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