On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 20:42 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: > Phil Schaffner wrote: ... > Was just looking at this earlier. > > Wouldn't it be a lot simpler to put /boot on raid1 too - wouldn't that > save the lengthy process of manually duplicating those partitions? Then > only grub would need manual installation onto the second drive's mbr. > > My understanding is that GRUB/Lilo have no issue with an ext3 /boot > partition being located on software raid1. > > By not placing /boot on raid1, doesn't it just make the whole process a > lot more complicated than it needs to be? > > I realise that in this instance, this document addresses a specific > issue this user is having due to /boot not being on raid1. But if we're > going to have a doc that describes how best to set up software raid1 at > installation... Ned, Can't argue with that logic. I was trying to capture some advice quoted by a Forum user, and almost modified it to use /boot on RAID1, but decided to go with minimal changes. Will make that change. Thanks, (The other) Phil