Software Raid boot problem

[Don Dupy]

On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Yang Xiao wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>

Alex is the Man............ ;-)
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Don Dupy

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