On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 17:33:42 +1200, Daniel Lawson <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > >I am running FC2 with software raid 1 (2 disks, 3 partions each). > > > >I had been only able to boot off of hde. In order to feel that > >I would be able to boot off hdg if hde went south I decided to try > >to fix this. But it turned out to be a lot harder than I expected. > > > > > > As well as the steps you suggested, read the following: > > http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2003-July/014331.html > > The one thing it does differently is tell grub that (hd0) is actually > your second disk, before you install grub to the second disk. > > This fixes the problem where if you remove /dev/hde, /dev/hdg actually > becomes (hd0) - you've got it set up as being (hd1). The extra steps > contained in that url tell grub to believe that (hd0) is actually > pointing at /dev/hdg Yeah, I had already run accross that page, but because the setup command didn't work and I got things to without testing pulling a disk, I figured that the page was outdated. Thanks for straightening me out. I will redo the setup for hdg using the device command first.
