On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 12:49:11PM -0500, Joel Uckelman wrote: > Thus spake Brian Gaynor: > > On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 16:59 -0500, Joel Uckelman wrote: > > > Thus spake akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx: > > > > Why exactly are you saving the grub boot to the MBR of two different > > > > drives? > > > > > > As I understand it, this is so that the system can still boot normally > > > if the first drive in the RAID dies. > > > > You are correct, you want to do this so you can boot the second drive in > > the event the first drive fails. It's too bad GRUB doesn't do this > > automatically. > > Any idea why what I did failed, though? I think my question (about why my > grub.conf is being ignored) was sidetracked by the discussion of installing > grub on multiple drives. > > -- Ok, i diverted us. Can you show us your grub.conf file? -- ======================================================================= Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. -- Redd Foxx ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
