At 5:12 PM -0500 8/21/05, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 04:45:17PM -0500, Joel Uckelman wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I recently set up a software RAID1 and since then haven't been able to get >> grub to recognize my grub.conf. Now instead of the splash screen and a list >> of boot options, I just get the grub shell prompt on boot. >> >> After setting up the RAID, I did the following from the grub shell: >> >> root (hd0,0) >> setup (hd0) >> root (hd1,0) >> setup (hd1) >> >> which should have installed grub to the master boot records of both drives. >> If I set the root manually at the prompt and point grub to my grub.conf >> using the configfile command, my grub.conf is used and booting goes normally >> from there. >> >> Any ideas about what's going on here? >> >> -- >> J. >Why exactly are you saving the grub boot to the MBR of two different >drives? ... My guess is that, in case he has to break the RAID for some reason, he would like the remaining drive to be able to boot the system? ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
