Hi, On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, William L. Maltby wrote:
On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 21:40 +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:Hi, I did a command-line upgrade of a RHL73 server to Centos 5. It was a bit rocky road, but in the end it was successful. There's one thing that bugged me. I'm using software RAID1 consisting of /dev/hd{a,c}. No LVM or anything fancy, a number of /dev/mdX partitions, including the root (+/boot). I'd have preferred to continue using lilo as it works more easily with RAID1 root/boot setups. The deployment guide for Centos5 claims to support RAID1 boot partitions (RHEL4 didn't, and provided a pointer a site in UK which no longer works for more info), it's not clear how exactly a redundant boot block configuraton is achieved with that -- so that if you remove the primary drive, it'll still boot. Anyone have pointers for this? [I've gone through a number of sites with various hacks how to install grub on both disks, but I'm not quite sure which ones are valid, and whether those are needed anymore]This has been touched on several times in the CentOS mailings. Did you also search CentOS? If not, ISTR that there are answers there. For grub, of course. <snip>
Yes, though apparently the 'Search' button on the frong page doesn't search mailing lists, it probably should.
Yes, I've done extensive searching. The problem is that there are something like 3-4 ways to achieve the desired end results and those ways apply to various versions of grub.
It's not obvious to me which approach is "The Way" for Centos/RHEL5 (preferably tested and working; if it doesn't work, a bug should be filed). Some mailings seem to hint that it should 'just work' with Centos5 due to changes in Grub, all those postings happened before Centos5/RHEL5 was even released.
For the record, here are IMHO the best links were: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160563 http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-May/046668.html http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=49266 (more detail) -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
