Once upon a time, Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 15:05 -0500, John Morris wrote: > > Ok, while all of this Grub wizardry is assembled here, I have a > > question. Can you install grub in a partition instead of the MBR once > > RAID gets involved? > > You can do it manually with the grub shell, but I didn't add support for > using grub-install to install the boot sector onto a partition when > you've got /boot on a RAID mirror. > > I tend think this is something that's not really generally useful, but I > could probably be convinced that support is worth adding, if you have > some pretty good reasoning or maybe a patch ;) At the moment, I'm not doing software RAID on my main home system, but I hope to before long. I would like to see the ability to install to the /boot partition when /boot is software RAID1. My system is set up with 3 main OS installs: Win2K (need it for firmware upgrades and such), FC3 i386, and FC3 x86_64. I also have test installs from time to time. To keep them from stepping on each other, I always install GRUB to the /boot partition for that install. I created a single cylinder partition at the front of the disk and put a minimal GRUB install on it that just chain-loads to the various OS installs on the system (this is the MBR installed loader). When I get another drive and go with software RAID for the various /boot partitions, I will not want GRUB installing to the MBR. It had definately not do such without asking. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.