Peter Farrell wrote:
>
> 2008/6/9 Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey@xxxxxxx>:
> > I have two drives in a software mirror. Other than setting the
> > bios to boot from the second drive, is there any way to confirm
> > that grub is installed properly on the second drive?
>
> When installing CentOS - sometimes the RAID-1 /boot partition, usually
> /dev/md0 fails to boot.
>
> The bug is known and exists on the bugtracker for CentOS as well as
> RedHat.
>
> The fix is to re-install GRUB on on each partition of the RAID-1
> array.
>
> I think you could use the same method to answer your question.
<SNIP>
> If you then want to test it, disconnect one of your drives - or just
> drop into grub at boot
> and tell it to boot from the partition of another drive.
I already know how to install grub on the second drive. The issue is
that this is a production server and I'm trying to avoid rebooting it if
possible.
I'm looking for a way to determine whether grub is installed on a drive
WITHOUT having to actually attempt to boot from it. If I redo the
installation, then I can be sure it's installed, but if it's already
there, I'd rather leave it alone. There's no point in messing with it
if it's already installed.
--
Bowie
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