RAID drive failed, but SMART shows no errors?

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Wed Mar 14 11:00:49 UTC 2007


Mogens Kjaer writes:

>>> Hm? If you have used the GUI to create the RAID partitions during
>>> installation GRUB should be on both drives.
>> 
>> No, I don't believe I used a GUI; I believe this was originally a text 
>> install.  grub-install takes a parameter, according to its man page.  
>> It's not clear, but I think that passing it /dev/sdb will install it to 
>> the second drive.  But, reading the man page's description of the 
>> --root-directory parameter muddled things a bit.  Not sure I understand 
>> its purpose.
>> 
> 
> Can't you do a:
> 
> grub-install /dev/md0
> 
> if md0 is your /boot partition?

I don't think grub gets normally installed into a partition, but rather onto 
the disk device itself -- /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1, etc…


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