Re: RAID 1 problem - solved, follow up

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On Wednesday 25 December 2002 21:45, Justin Zygmont uttered:
> I have tested some different things out and it seems to work ok now.  What
> I noticed is that the partitioning on the drives should be the same if you
> want to raid / and be able to boot any drive individually to simulate a
> failure.  Otherwise you'll have to edit the grub line (if you can
> get to one) and change the hd=x,x line to whetever it should be for the
> differently partitioned drive.  However, using one drive, I switched it
> from the hda to hdc or vice versa, it would still boot because it is
> hd=0,0.  I upgraded the kernel and even made some other changes and it
> still worked fine, so I don't see the need for a seperate /boot partition
> afterall.  

You can also install grub on both harddrives, and then your bios will boot 
what ever disk it comes to first.  Since raid partitions are really just 
Linux partitions under a different name, this works.

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