Making Harddrive Bootable

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 31.07.2005 schrieb edwarner99 at yahoo.com um 19:17:

> I have spent the better part of yesterday reading,
> searching and trying; without any luck.
> 
> I have a single IDE drive that I have transfered the
> image to a Raid 1 array sitting on a 3Ware 8006 card.
> 
> I want to remove the IDE drive, but I can not figure
> out how to make this mirror array bootable.

Hardware RAID is transparent to the OS, here Fedora. So just install
grub into the MBR of /dev/sda. Make sure the 3Ware module 3w-xxxx be in
the initrd.img by adding an alias to /etc/modprobe.conf and rebuilding
the initial ramdisk image file using mkinitrd.

Alexander


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