I've always created my own mirrored RAID arrays manually in the installer, and made /boot a mirrored pair as well usually on MD0 and never had a problem with it booting from either disk. Regards Pete Paul wrote: >On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 22:00 -0400, Gerald Waugh wrote: > > >>On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 21:18 -0400, Gerald Waugh wrote: >> >> >>>Ok, I finally worked my way through the partitioning. >>>I believe it may be because I didn't explicitly select the >>>drive when I created the partitions (both were selected) >>> A guess! >>> >>>I have md0 as '/' md1 as swap and md2 as /home >>>I then go through the install; >>> it ask to install on the md0 partition. >>>But I never see where it ask to put the mbr record.. >>>Then when it finishes the install and reboot.. >>>I get a screen with "GRUB" at the top and nothing else. >>> >>> >>> >>I read while searching for this problem that RHEL3 won't >>boot from a RAID partition, is that true of RHEL4 / CentOS4? >> >> > >I believe so ... I usually make a 100MB /boot partition on the first >drive and a similar sized /boot2 partition on the second drive and once >things are up & running and use dd to copy the boot loader on the second >drive and copy the files from /boot to /boot2 every time I update the >kernel. > >I have not had need to actually see if this will work and let me boot >off a failed primary drive by swapping them yet. > >Regards. >Paul Berger > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >