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

[Bryan J. Smith]

Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> You don't say whether this is hardware or software raid.

I assumed software.
 
> mbr should be put in boot blocks

Being "anal" on terminology, the physical "Master Boot
Record" (MBR) in the PC architecture is Cylinder 0 of BIOS
disk 80h (first fixed disk).

The traditional name for any boot stream outside of the
physical MBR is typically called the "bootstrap" not MBR.

> unless you have some other boot manager handling boot and
> needs to hand off the boot.

And that boot loader goes (at least partially) in the MBR,
and then it targets other bootstraps.


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