On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Terrence Martin wrote: > The boot loader is grub and I want both /boot and / raided. > > In the event of a failure of hda I would like the system to switch to > hdc. This works fine. However what I have had problems with is if the > system reboots. If /dev/hda is unavailable I no longer have a disk with > a boot sector set up correctly. Unless I have a floppy or CDROM with a > boot loader the system will not come up. > > So my main question is what is the best practice to get a workable boot > sector on /dev/hdc? Use LILO. Works just fine. My standard layout on a 2-disk systems these days is usuely something like / 256MB swap 1GB (depends on system memory though) /usr 2GB /var just under half of rest of disk /archive rest of disk I don't bother with a separate /boot partition. It's not needed in these enlightened days of BIOSes that can boot from modern disks, and in any-case a small / partition is inside the 1024 cylinder limit anyway. Disks are cheap and I can keep an N-day archive on the same system (see rsync documentation) which is normally re-mounted read only and then that can be dumped to tape, etc. I've deployed a lot of little servers and routers like this and I'm pleased with their usbility. The runes in a lilo.conf file are: boot=/dev/md0 root=/dev/md0 raid-extra-boot=/dev/hda,/dev/hdc I've no idea how to integrate lilo into a modern RH distribution though. I use Debian for all my stuff. Gordon - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
