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. -- J.