On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 09:05:04AM +0100, Luca Berra wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 04:45:39PM +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:05:58AM +0100, Luca Berra wrote: > >>On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:41:31PM +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > >>>Make each of the disks bootable by lilo: > >>> > >>> lilo -b /dev/sda /etc/lilo.conf1 > >>> lilo -b /dev/sdb /etc/lilo.conf2 > >>There should be no need for that. > >>to achieve the above effect with lilo you use > >>raid-extra-boot=mbr-only > >>in lilo.conf > >> > >>>Make each of the disks bootable by grub > >>install grub with the command > >>grub-install /dev/md0 > > > >I have already changed the text on the wiki. Still I am not convinced it > >is the best advice that is described. > > > lilo -b /dev/md0 (without a raid-extra-boot line in lilo.conf) will > install lilo on the boot sector of the partitions containing /dev/md0 > (and it will break with 1.1 sb) I think 1.1 Superblocks will break all boots with lilo and grub, but 1.1 superblocks are not standard in current distributions. When would 1.1 superblocks be a problem, for new users of raid? > for grub, do you have any doubt about the grub-install script not > working correctly? No, I think the grub description is OK. I only meant the lilo description. Best regards keld - 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
