I have finished the steps of my proposed migration of a Fedora Core 5 system to RAID-1... https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-March/msg04350.html ...up to step 14 where I attempt to reboot the system from the newly populated md partitions on the second drive. However I still have a few questions before I attempt this. Originally I planned on adding the second drive to the second IDE channel on the motherboard. However the end-user wanted it on a newly installed PCI IDE card. This means that the original drive is hda remains on the first IDE channel and the CD writer and zip drives are on the second IDE channel of the motherboard as hdc and hdd. When I installed the second hard drive on the new PCI IDE card it came up as hde. Is it correct to assume that hde will definitely appear to grub as hd1? At this point I have edited /etc/fstab on the newly prepared md root partition so that the devices all point to md partitions instead of hda partitions. My understanding is that I should be able to use... #boot=/dev/hde default=0 timeout=15 splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora Core (2.6.16-1.2069_FC5smp) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2069_FC5smp ro root=/dev/md2 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.16-1.2069_FC5smp.img title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp ro root=/dev/md2 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp.img ...to use the currently installed grub boot loader on hda to boot the initrd located on the md partition of hde. Or will it actually use the initrd from the boot partition on hda still (until I reinstall grub while booted from the md partitions with... /sbin/grub root (hd1,0) setup (hd1) quit My understanding is that should allow the next reboot to work entirely off of the hde disk.) Thanks in advance for any comments. Jack
