Les Mikesell wrote:
Karl Larsen wrote:
I was sent a good paper by John Urish in 2006 titled Software
RAID-1 and it is VERY GOOD :-)
It is complete and it tells me how to rewrite grub.conf, fstab and
initrd so my computer can boot and work with raid :-(
Forget it. I am not this interested in RAID!
You don't need to do anything to initrd for raid-1. Since the
underlying partition is almost the same as a non-raid filesystem, you
can pretend that each /boot is a stand-alone partition as far as
booting goes. There are some tricks to make the 2nd drive boot if the
1st fails, but on IDE it's probably not worth the trouble because most
disk failure modes will hang the machine until you remove it - and at
that point you might as well swap the mirror into the 1st position,
boot the rescue CD, and reinstall grub. Still beats restoring from a
backup and losing a day's work.
The guys paper assured me that I will not boot again without all
those changes if I make my current partition fd. There is so much yes
and no about things I can't and do not want to learn by bitter experience.
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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
