On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 01:04 +0100, Lee W wrote:
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.
The problem with this is the fact that BIOS device addresses _change_ when you remove a drive. So do you setup GRUB on the 2nd+ device to be BIOS fixed disk 81h (the first device has failed, but has not been removed) or BIOS fixed disk 80h (the first device has failed and has been removed)?
Even though the Linux device name might not change, GRUB needs to know what BIOS fixed disk assignment the disk is, and that _could_ change on the 2nd+ redundant boot devices.