Les Mikesell spake the following on 4/13/2006 8:19 AM: > On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 09:47, Nick Smith wrote: >>>>>> sync) finally finished the install AND IT DIDNT WRITE THE BOOT RECORD! >>>>>> when it rebooted i got my grub menu from GENTOO! - strike two, >>> Grub doesn't understand raid - is your /boot on an md device? >>> >>> -- >>> >> I have grub booting off /dev/md0 right now which is mounted as /boot. >> And have with gentoo and many other distros, I think you have been >> mis-informed. > > If it is a RAID1, I suspect that you are really booting from the > underlying normal partition as far as grub is concerned and > some magic in the installer figured out how to set it up > for you. Lilo has had that magic built in for some time now > but if Centos does it for grub it is a very recent addition. > Normally you have to run grub manually to install it on > both of the mirrored drives. > I think the grub install has been automagic since 4.0 came out. Before that I always kept a boot floppy halfway in the drive just in case the first drive failed. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!