[ale] RAID1

Yu, Jerry Jerry.Yu at Voicecom.com
Tue Oct 5 11:13:36 EDT 2004


however, BIOS won't allow you to boot off a 'slave' disk (hdb). Some smart
BIOSes may though. Therefore, it'd be beneficial to have a hda/hdc mirror
instead of hda/hdb, if the BIOS allow you to boot off CDROM on slave.
Moreover, hda/hdc mirror will benefit from spreading IO on two disk
controllers and better redunancy.


-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of Jim
Popovitch
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 9:52 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] RAID1


On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 15:23, Christopher Fowler wrote:

> Grub was on those drives and now grub refuses to boot.  I assume it
> may be because grub should not really be part of a raid structure?
> 

Grub by default is in /boot/grub which, based on what you said, seem to
only exist on /dev/hda (unless you manually mirrored it to hdb). 
Therefore you will need a boot floppy/cdrom to and a new install of
grub.

hth,

-Jim P.




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