"Jiann-Ming Su" <sujiannming@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 11/17/06, David G. Miller <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> BTW, to anyone reaching for their flamethrower, I don't want to start a
> grub vs. lilo flame war so please don't. If you have a *foolproof* and
> *native* (doesn't rely on external commands) way to get grub to support
> Linux software RAID, I'm more than willing to listen. Hint, anything
> that includes an instruction like "use dd to copy the MBR..." is a
> non-starter.
>
https://thane2.chbe.gatech.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Software_RAID
This is much better than what I have seen in the past. Thanks. Quick
explanation of the example: the RAID 1 array has /boot on /dev/md0 which
consists of /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdc1:
device (hd0) /dev/hdc
root (hd0,0)
install /grub/stage1 (hd0,0) /grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,0)/grub/menu.lst
install /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,0)/grub/menu.lst
It's still not as easy as lilo and I have no idea how to modify the grub
incantations for a different configuration. It would be nice if grub
detected that the boot device was part of a RAID array and handled this
for the user.
Cheers,
Dave
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