Alternative booting

[Les Mikesell]

Karl Larsen wrote:

>>> If bios sees the drives as separate things, then that's how you have 
>>> to install grub, since it has to call bios to load the kernel.  On a 
>>> real hardware raid, bios will only see the array.
>>
>> BIOS sees them as one drive. A working F7 sees them as two drives and 
>> as one under the /mapper dir.
>> I could see this to be a BIOS problem if nothing loads, but GRUB does 
>> load at least so far as that it gets to the grub> prompt. So it is not 
>> that BIOS is confused. It is purely a GRUB issue.

You aren't done with bios when you get the grub prompt.  Grub does not 
know anything about disk drivers and must make bios calls to load the 
kernel.

>    Exactly. I am going to see if it is a kernel problem. Grub really did 
> work on FC6 and that might have been because it has a different kernel. 
> I have the last good old kernel still bootable on this f7 and will try 
> it later.

If you have a grub prompt, the kernel hasn't been loaded yet and can't 
be the problem.

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   Les Mikesell
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