a raid problem with grub

[Paul Howarth]

david smethurst wrote:
> all too hard
> ill take the raid off and run some other software to back it up
> thanks
> david
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 10:00 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>david smethurst wrote:
>>
>>>hi all
>>>i have installed fc3 on two scsi drives and running raid0 software
>>>grub wants to boot /dev/sda, which is the first scsi drive second
>>>is /dev/sdb, raid is /dev/md0
>>>will grub boot /dev/md0?
>>>how do i tell grub to boot /dev/md0 if it will?
>>
>>It won't. Grub doesn't know about RAID0 devices. You'll need to manually 
>>install grub on sdb if you want it on both drives.

Is this really such a big issue? Booting from sda should work just fine 
until sda dies, at which point you could switch the drives over, boot 
from the rescue CD and grub-install on the "new" sda. Depends on how 
much downtime you can take, I suppose.

Paul.