On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 11:26, Robin Laing wrote: > Michael Mansour wrote: > > Hi Robin, > > > > Yahoo truncated most of the email so I'll just try to > > answer your specific question. > > > > > >>Would it be possible to write the MBR to the second > >>disk just in case? > >>-- > >>Robin Laing > > > > > > Yes, I've tested this by removing the first drive and > > writing grub to the MBR of the second drive and it did > > work fine, although when putting the first drive back > > in there then I had the issue with two MBR's which got > > things a little confused. > > > > Basically, what I learnt from that saga is that grub > > should only reside on one drive. > > > > Michael. > > > > > > Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. > > http://au.movies.yahoo.com > > > > > > This is interesting. > > I don't use RAID for my system drives but I do for /home so it isn't > an issue for me. But in a production system, it would be very > convenient to have the MBR on both drives in case the boot drive does > fail. Move the second drive and then you can reboot. > > I for one when I was a system admin, did not like getting called in at > 03:00 due to a crash. And doesn't always seem to happen at 03:00 when > things go bad? :) > > I feel it should be there. Now if you do write it to the second disk > and you have problems, this could be a problem. > > -- > Robin Laing Many newer BIOS' will allow for booting off of a secondary drive. If this is the case with your machine I would just load the second drive where it sits and just change the BIOS setting if necessary. (I used to do this with SCSI and IDE for a duel boot system.) -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
