[CentOS] RAID5 - MBR and default grub config on CentOS 4
Bryan J. Smith
b.j.smith at ieee.orgMon Aug 29 17:42:55 UTC 2005
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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. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)
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