[CentOS] RAID5 - MBR and default grub config on CentOS 4

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Aug 29 17:34:23 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 10:20 -0700, Robert Hanson wrote:
> greetings,
> 
> i just know i have read several times on this list and in other places that
> on a RAID5 array that the MBR should be placed on the /boot partition.
> 
> is this truly correct and if so, why?
> 
> my experiences of putting the MBR on the /boot partition are contrary to
> that it will even work and boot that way...
> 
> comments please?
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You don't say whether this is hardware or software raid.

mbr should be put in boot blocks unless you have some other boot manager
handling boot and needs to hand off the boot.

Craig




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