On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Timothy D. Lenz <tlenz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> How did you install Grub on the second drive? I have seen some >> instructions on the web that would not allow the system to boot if the >> first drive failed or was removed. >> > > > I think this is how I did it, at least it is what I had in my notes: > > grub-install /dev/sda && grub-install /dev/sdb > > And this is from my notes also. It was from an IRC chat. Don't know if it > was the raid channel or the grub channel: > > [14:02] <Jordan_U> Vorg: No. First, what is the output of grub-install > --version? > [14:02] <Vorg> (GNU GRUB 1.98~20100115-1) > [14:04] <Jordan_U> Vorg: Ok, then run "grub-install /dev/sda && grub-install > /dev/sdb" (where sda and sdb are the members of the array) > Which is exactly my point. You installed grub on /dev/sdb such that it would boot off /dev/sdb. But if /dev/sda has failed, on reboot, the hard drive that was /dev/sdb is now /dev/sda, but Grub is still looking for its files on the non-existent /dev/sdb. -- 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
