Dave wrote: > Hello, > I'm wanting to install centos via serial terminal on to a box without > monitor. It will be administered remotely via ssh. I've got two disks in > it and would like to use raid1 with this system, but i'd like to get > this going preferably during or immediately after the install. My > problem as i see it is installing grub on to both hard disks, you have > to get a shell window during the install for that otherwise the box > won't boot. Does anyone have this working? > Thanks. > Dave. Yes. PXE + dhcp + pxegrub + tftp + installation image and initrd. Rebuilt grub to enable network support and to stuff in a default menu that makes it let you use grub over the serial terminal. If you must use the CD, then you need to pass something like 'console=ttyS0,9600' to the kernel. After installation, anaconda should create appropriate grub menu entries. If not, look at the sample below. serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 terminal --timeout=2 serial console However, what do you mean by 'installing grub on to both disks, you have to get a shell window during the install'? Are you trying to get around the first disk fails and the system does not boot up any more problem? That is fixed on Centos 5/RHEL 5.