[CentOS] Software RAID muck up
Timothy Sandel
timothy at jupiter.stcl.edu
Sat Jun 25 19:00:50 UTC 2005
>
> Grub doesn't actually boot from a RAID - it just happens to work
> because RAID1 looks the same on the underlying single partitions.
> Boot with the CD and point the grub config to one or the other
> of the hd partitions holding /boot. If you get an error, that
> one might be corrupt and you can try the other. If you get
> to the point where the kernel is loaded and you can't mount
> root, then the problem could be with RAID, but that part will
> probably work.
I always use lilo for mirrored servers. It will boot from either drive when
one fails.
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