RE: Trouble with GRUB and multiple HD's

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Pete Nesbitt
> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 7:00 PM
> To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Trouble with GRUB and multiple HD's
> 
> On February 7, 2004 04:42 pm, Harry Hoffman wrote:
> > Yep, it's bootable (as per fdisk) :-)
> >
> > Quoting Otto Haliburton <ottohaliburton@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> >
> > *> >
> > *> IMHO you need /dev/had to be bootable, if it is not bootable then
> there
> > is *> no MBR there to boot to, if you know what I mean.
> > *>
> >
> > --
> > Harry Hoffman
> > hhoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> 
> Hi,
> The software RAID is required before you can access the software raided
> drives. Are you trying to load that as a module or is compiled into the
> kernel.
> If I have this right, if raid is comiled into the kernel, then /boot needs
> to
> be a regular partition (non raid) if your using modules, you cannot set
> either / or /boot as a raid partition because it needs to access the
> modules
> on / to load the raid.
> 
> So it boot / as raid, compile your kernel with raid and make sure /boot is
> not
> in the raid set.
> --
> Pete Nesbitt, rhce
> 
> 
I agree with Pete, I was about to say that grub supports RAID disk so the
fact that disk are raided should not be a limitation.  But, Grub should be
able to figure things out. If you are running grub-install from a active
system or from the boot floppy.



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