[CentOS] raid 1 question

Thu Mar 7 17:17:41 UTC 2013
SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com>

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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