[CentOS] Manual Paritioning with fdisk

[Peter Farrow]

I've always created my own mirrored RAID arrays manually in the installer,

and made /boot a mirrored pair as well usually on MD0 and never had a 
problem with it
booting from either disk. 

Regards

Pete



Paul wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 22:00 -0400, Gerald Waugh wrote:
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>>On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 21:18 -0400, Gerald Waugh wrote:
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>>>Ok, I finally worked my way through the partitioning.
>>>I believe it may be because I didn't explicitly select the
>>>drive when I created the partitions (both were selected)
>>>   A guess!
>>>
>>>I have md0 as '/' md1 as swap and md2 as /home
>>>I then go through the install;
>>> it ask to install on the md0 partition.
>>>But I never see where it ask to put the mbr record..
>>>Then when it finishes the install and reboot..
>>>I get a screen with "GRUB" at the top and nothing else.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>I read while searching for this problem that RHEL3 won't
>>boot from a RAID partition, is that true of RHEL4 / CentOS4?
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>I believe so ... I usually make a 100MB /boot partition on the first
>drive and a similar sized /boot2 partition on the second drive and once
>things are up & running and use dd to copy the boot loader on the second
>drive and copy the files from /boot to /boot2 every time I update the
>kernel.
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>I have not had need to actually see if this will work and let me boot
>off a failed primary drive by swapping them yet.
>
>Regards.
>Paul Berger
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