On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 03:12 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > > Why would it mess up grub? - I thought I would just need to edit > > /etc/fstab . . > > Because grub might not be saved on both MBRs. Because removing one disk > might rename the other and depending on how you have grub pointing to > the conf file this could break as well (though is less likely). > Grub doesn't actually see the raid array, it uses the filesystem in > read only mode (which works because the raid info is at the end of the > partition). So there can be issues with pulling drives out of the array. > I ran into this issue when one of my disks in a RAID 1 mirror died unexpectedly. GRUB wasn't installed on the MBR of both drives so the PC wouldn't boot. I also had the issue where the drives were renamed (/dev/sda died) Fortunately, I found Super Grub Disk (http://www.supergrubdisk.org/) which came to my rescue. It correctly read the renamed disk, installed GRUB, and resolved the issue. Law -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
