grub ignores my grub.conf

Brian Gaynor briang at pmccorp.com
Mon Aug 22 17:39:09 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 16:59 -0500, Joel Uckelman wrote:
> Thus spake akonstam at trinity.edu:
> > Why exactly are you saving the grub boot to the MBR of two different
> > drives? 
> 
> As I understand it, this is so that the system can still boot normally
> if the first drive in the RAID dies.

You are correct, you want to do this so you can boot the second drive in
the event the first drive fails. It's too bad GRUB doesn't do this
automatically.

-- 
Brian Gaynor
www.pmccorp.com
FC4/Linux on DELL Inspiron 5160 3.0Ghz 
canis 10:37:27 up 2:07, 2 users, 
load average: 0.33, 0.27, 0.23 





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