GRUB & RAID have me Stumped

Paul Lussier p.lussier at comcast.net
Fri Jun 16 12:24:01 EDT 2006


"Ben Scott" <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:

>> 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).

Ahhhh, so I want to do something like:

 grub> devive (hd0) /dev/md0
 grub> root (hd0)
 grub> setup (hd0) 

?
-- 
Seeya,
Paul



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