On Sat, 2013-01-19 at 17:37 +0000, Jorge Martínez López wrote: > Hi! > > 2013/1/19 Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > I have two machines with atypical disk layouts that I am upgrading to > > F18. (So far, I've upgraded three using fedup network with no > > significant issues other than this question.) > > > > 1. I have a machine with two drives and software RAID 1. Do I need > > to do anything special as far as installing grub2 on the second > > drive? Do I need to bother at all? > > > > I have the same setup and every time there is a grub update I run: > # grub2-install /dev/sda > # grub2-install /dev/sdb > being /dev/sda and /dev/sdb the two hard drives in the RAID. It is > important to install grub on /dev/sdb too because if /dev/sda fails your > system will not boot. Thanks for this advice. Now I still need an answer to my other question. On the RAID1 disks on this machine, as on my laptop, I installed grub on /boot (/dev/sda2) rather than on the MBR. (On my laptop, it's because I wanted to preserve the Windows MBR, but on this machine, it was just force of habit.) So /dev/sda2 is the active partition. So is it safe to install grub2 on /dev/sda2 (say) or should it be installed on the MBR? Or is there a way to tell of the former is OK for a particular configuration? If the latter, what partition should I make active? TIA. > > Greetings, -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
