Anybody got FC3 installed on software raid-1 with Grub
José Alexandre Antunes Faria
spigaz at gmail.com
Thu Nov 25 16:46:46 UTC 2004
Hi there,
Well I got it running on fc2, then I updated to fc3 and it still works..
But when I tryed to install fc3 from scratch on another machine it
didn't worked...
It gave some strange error...
So I installed withoud raid and the box works.
Now I'm thinking of trying fc2 and then updating to see if it works
okay...
Good luck,
José Faria
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 08:45 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote:
> > Hi, There seems to be a number of bugs relating to Grub not installing
> > well on software raid-1 config. The symptoms seem to be that after a
> > install, the system just hangs on boot
>
> I did, and it works great for me. However, I'm using LILO (and
> sometimes SILO ;-) ). I don't need fancy graphics in boot loader, LILO
> handles mirrored boot drives correctly out-of-the-box for long time now,
> and most of my configs are Linux-only machines (those few multi-OS boxes
> are also rather simple and trivial cases). This makes LILO perfect
> choice for me. Grub has some more features than LILO, but guess what, I
> never ever had need to use any of those. So I said goodbye to Grub, and
> went back LILO road.
>
> I've played a lot with Grub back in the Red Hat 7.3 days to get it
> installed correctly for mirrored boot drives configuartion (software
> raid-1 using Linux md). Back in those days, Anaconda would configure
> Grub to be installed only on the drive where first submirror is. While
> it is possible (although not trivial) to install Grub correctly on all
> disks that have submirrors of boot partition (and I have done it, and
> was using it for a while), using LILO in this type of config proved to
> be much more simple and more reliable solution.
>
> I don't know if the part of Anaconda installer that hanles installation
> and initialization of Grub has been updated to correctly install Grub
> for mirrored boot drives. Even if it does, I don't think I will be
> switching back to Grub anytime soon (LILO simply works so good for me,
> that I don't even consider experimenting with anything else).
>
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