[CentOS] Problems with 4.3 install - didnt write boot record

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Apr 13 15:19:05 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 09:47, Nick Smith wrote:
> > > > > sync) finally finished the install AND IT DIDNT WRITE THE BOOT RECORD!
> > > > > when it rebooted i got my grub menu from GENTOO! - strike two,
> >
> > Grub doesn't understand raid - is your /boot on an md device?
> >
> > --
> >
> I have grub booting off /dev/md0 right now which is mounted as /boot.
> And have with gentoo and many other distros, I think you have been
> mis-informed.

If it is a RAID1, I suspect that you are really booting from the
underlying normal partition as far as grub is concerned and
some magic in the installer figured out how to set it up
for you.  Lilo has had that magic built in for some time now
but if Centos does it for grub it is a very recent addition.
Normally you have to run grub manually to install it on
both of the mirrored drives.

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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