[CentOS] raid 1 question

Thu Mar 7 17:23:04 UTC 2013
Paras pradhan <pradhanparas at gmail.com>

I have a centos 5.4 installation. grub on /dev/md0 . no problem at
all. my primary disk failed , replaced the disk and no problem at all.
what has changed in 5.9 and 6 releases? its not easy anymore.

Paras.

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:17 AM, SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Paras pradhan <pradhanparas at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> One question:
>>
>> During the install, do I install grub on sda or md0?
>>
>>
> Install grub on sda and sdb.
> Installing GRUB on the mbr of both disks ensures that your system can still
> boot if one disk has failed.
>
> Although the Linux OS sees those two drives as a software raid1, GRUB looks
> at a single drive when booting.
>
>
>>  Paras.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Paras pradhan <pradhanparas at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I don't get a grub so I can't issue "c" .
>> >
>> > Paras.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Timo Schoeler
>> > <timo.schoeler at riscworks.net> wrote:
>> >> On 03/07/2013 05:30 PM, thus Paras pradhan spake:
>> >>
>> >>> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >>> I have a server with 2 disks. Installed centos 5.9 with raid1. I
>> >>> created /dev/md0 to hold "/"  and /dev/md1 for swap and nothing
>> >>> else. Grub is installed on /dev/md0. After the successful
>> >>> installation, the server does not boot. I don't see the boot loader .
>> >>> I see a blank cursor blinking.
>> >>>
>> >>> What have I done wrong?
>> >>
>> >> have you paid attention on 'Section Two' here?
>> >>
>> >> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5
>> >>
>> >>> Thanks Paras.
>> >>
>> >> HTH,
>> >>
>> >> Timo
>> >>
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