GRUB & RAID have me Stumped

[Ben Scott]

On 6/16/06, klussier at comcast.net <klussier at comcast.net> wrote:
> Can you post your /boot/grub/menu.lst ? You probably need to change it to
> something like:
>
> title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.15-1-686-smp
> root            (hd0,0)
> kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-686-smp root=/dev/sda1 ro
> initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-1-686-smp
> savedefault
> boot
>
> The root line and the kernel line are fairly picky about what you put in there.

  If the root partition is mirrored, you want root=/dev/md0 or some
other md device, and *NOT* the physical device.  Otherwise, you'll
really fsck everything up.  Either RAID will refuse to start (bad),
root will refuse to mount (really bad), or root will mount but won't
mirror writes to the other partition (really really bad).

-- Ben