Software Raid boot problem

Yang Xiao yxiao2004 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 5 21:25:26 UTC 2005


Thanks everybody,  I followed the instruction Alex gave and it worked
like a charm.

Yang


On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 12:41:55 -0800 (PST), Justin Zygmont
<jzygmont at solarflow.net> wrote:
> You just need to install GRUB on the MBR of the second drive.  I think the
> grub-install <device> should work, if not, there is also a manual way of
> doing it.  This is because the boot sector isn't actually raided.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Yang Xiao wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > I have raided the 2 SCSI drives on a DELL PE1550 with RAID 1 including
> > the /boot partition.
> > I found that one of the drive can't boot, how do I make both drives
> > bootable so that I have a true  mirror? I've tried to dd the first few
> > sectors on the drive that boots to the other drive unseccessfully
> > using dd if=/dev/sda bs=512 count=[1,2,3], grub starts then hang. Can
> > someone please help ?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Yang
> >
> >
>




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