RAID-1 boot partition and FC2->FC4 upgrade

Justin Zygmont jzygmont at solarflow.net
Fri Jul 15 20:33:23 UTC 2005


On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Jack Howarth wrote:

> Justin,
>   Are you sure that...
>
> root (hd1,0)
> find /boot/grub/stage1
> setup (hd1)

This is the I would do it, and it always worked for me.

> ...is what you want to do with the second drive. Rereading the
> information I have on grub and RAID-1, it appears that you want
> to really do...
>
> device (hd0) /dev/sda
> root (hd0,0)
> setup (hd0)
> device (hd0) /dev/sdb
> root (hd0,0)
> setup (hd0)
>
> to make sure that both drives will be hd0 so the second will
> come on line if the first fails. Of course I guess that
> assumes that when the first A SATA drive fails that the
> second B SATA drive becomes hd0 instead of hd1. That should be
> the case, no?

yes, the only active drive becomes hd0


good luck with the install, I guess that's all the fun with doing these 
things:)




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