Les Mikesell spake the following on 4/13/2006 8:19 AM:
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?
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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.
I think the grub install has been automagic since 4.0 came out. Before that I always kept a boot floppy halfway in the drive just in case the first drive failed.