RE: software mirroring of boot drive

["Daryl Daly" <daryld norco com>]

Grunloh, Robert said:
> Then I tried Daryl's suggestion and ran the grub shell. however it
> couldn't find sd0 or sd1, and pressing tab gave no choices.  This was
> while running, as opposed to bootup, which was probably my mistake,
> because upon rebooting grub can't find stage2. So I guess I finally got
> things unmirrored ;-)  I might try again after a reinstall (no data
> lost).
>

You have to use hd0, hd1, ... in grub.
I have always done this config while the system is running. Unless I mess
something up and I have do it at boot ;)
Also the partitions numbers start with 0. So (hd0,0) is the first
partition on the first drive. Since it couldn't find stage2 I would guess
that grub was looking in the wrong partition. The partition you specify
has to be the one with /boot.

> It looks like even if I get this working it should be with lilo. But so
> far software raid on the boot drive still doesn't look like a good
> practice to me if I can try for an alternative.
>

I have it working on  3 different boxes. With both IDE and SCSI configs. I
am no lilo nor grub expert but I have found that grub is much easier to
configure.

Daryl.