thnx for the response guys Apparently the problem lies with the bios not detecting both sata dirives early enough in its boot process. so i patched both drives to another port on the motherboard and now it works like a charm.but i'm not sure what i've to add to the grub.conf?
wessel
On Jul 23, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: I don't have a direct answer to your question, but here is the howto I have been using twice, with good results: http://www.howtoforge.com/software-raid1-grub-boot-fedora-8After installing grub to the other disk, did you update your grub.conf accordingly? Terv. Jussi On 23.7.2010 11.12, Wessel | Postoffice wrote: Hi All,
I'm currently trying to install centos 5.4 x86-64bit on a raid 1, so if
one the 2 disks fails the server will still be available.
i installed grub on /dev/sda using the advanced grub configuration
option during the install.
after the install is done i boot in linux rescue mode , chroot the
filesystem and copy grub to both drives using:
grub>root (hd0,0)
grub>setup (hd0)
grub>root (hd1,0
grub>setup (hd1)
grub>quit
then reboot, but is still get the error : disk boot faillure, insert
linux install disk.
does anyone now what i'm doing wrong? here is a copy of my partition scheme.
Disk /dev/sda: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 38 305203+ fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda2 39 675 5116702+ fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda3 676 30515 239689800 fd Linux raid autodetect
Disk /dev/sdb: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 38 305203+ fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb2 39 675 5116702+ fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb3 676 30515 239689800 fd Linux raid autodetect
Disk /dev/md1: 5239 MB, 5239406592 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 1279152 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/md0: 312 MB, 312410112 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 76272 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/md2: 245.4 GB, 245442281472 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 59922432 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes
Regards,
Wessel
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