RE: software mirroring of boot drive (Grunloh, Robert)

["Michael Andrewjeski" <mandrewjeski zonelabs com>]

It does include LILO.. You must select it manually though at install or
set it in your ks.cfg for kickstart installs.

You could google to see about switching from grub back to lilo, though
I'd be wary..

HTH

Mike






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-----Original Message-----
From: 'Aztec Eagle' Turbo [mailto:turbo cie unam mx] 
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 2:50 PM
To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
Subject: Re: software mirroring of boot drive (Grunloh, Robert)


On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 12:32, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

> It's a shame that RHEL doesn't include LILO.  LILO *does* understand 
> md,
> and will automatically install itself on every hard drive necessary if
you 
> tell it 'boot=/dev/md0'.  I have a couple servers running RH7.3/9 that

> boot this way, and it's always just worked.

I've always installed Boot Manager on MBR. So, it doesn't matter if you
use GRUB or LILO, MBR is outside the software raid partitions and you
will need to install boot manager on both disks. Anaconda left installed
the first disk, so you only need to install the second one. But it is an
interesting issue: some day I will install Boot Manager on /dev/md0 just
to see what happens.

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