[CentOS] MIrrored drives won't boot after installation

Gerald Waugh gwaugh at frontstreetnetworks.com
Sun Apr 17 18:37:12 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 11:30 -0700, Joe Pruett wrote:
> > i had a similar problem with two scsi drives and ended
> > up rebooting into rescue mode and installing and
> > configuring lilo.  machine comes up with no problems
> > at all now.  remember to run the lilo command after
> > configuring.
> 
> i've seen this as well, but reinstalling grub from rescue mode fixed it as
> well.  it seems to be some kind of problem with anaconda.  grub will work,
> but just doesn't get installed properly at install time.

When you configure the drives as RAID1 the installer never request where
to install the boot record. If configuring with one drive (no raid) the
installer will ask where to install the record.

Gerald




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