Thanks for the suggestions. Let me ask an additional question. Is it a bad idea to write the grub to a software mirror. Is it written to a specific disk when this is done? If I had a corrupt boot loader or boot sector and i needed to rescue. Would I point to the md device or one of the disks (or both). TIA On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:48:03 -0500, Paul Clements <paul.clements@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Colin McDonald wrote: > > > Without taking up to much of y'alls time, what would be the best > > solution for moving the RAID array over to a new box? > > > 2. Try to boot off of the disks after they have been transferred into > > the new machine? I know this will cause all kinds of problems with > > kernel/devices, etc and probably won't work. > > Actually, I've done this a couple of times with both Red Hat and SUSE > and it's worked surprisingly well. With the kernel being mostly modular > and the hardware detection/configuration utilities being pretty advanced > these days, it's not much of a problem. (I had a minor issue with SUSE > doing this sort of thing because the MAC address of the NIC was > different, so the network stuff was not getting configured. On Red Hat > [and hopefully Fedora is still the same] you should get prompted at > bootup if there is any hardware to add or remove.) > > Especially if you're wanting to keep the system configuration exactly > the same, this may be the way to go, rather than trying to reconfigure > everything exactly the way you had it before. > > And of course if, after booting the new system with the old disks, you > find that things are not quite right, you can always re-install at that > point... > > -- > Paul > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
