FC5 RAID 1 - booting off either drive

Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.bell at gmail.com
Tue Mar 28 05:49:37 UTC 2006


On 3/27/06, Laurence Vanek <lvanek at charter.net> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of a way to check for the presence of grub on each
> drive (obviously its on hda since it boots presently) to see if this
> needs to be done for FC5 also without powering down each drive in turn &
> attempting to boot?

This is all I could come up with.  I'm sure there has to be another way.  heh

[root at circe ~]# dd if=/dev/hda bs=384 count=1 | strings
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
8,|     u
ZRrI
D|f1
GRUB
[root at circe ~]#

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Chris

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