[CentOS] Software RAID muck up
Lee W
centos-list at unassemble.co.uk
Sun Jun 26 00:04:50 UTC 2005
Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>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.
>
>
>
Thanks Les, that has sorted it.
Is it just a limitation of the installer that it doesn't install grub on
all the devices in the array?
I was guessing that it wouldn't be that difficult for the installer to
do this, perhaps when you select /boot as the mount point for the raid
device.
Thanks again
Regards
Lee
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