Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

[Jiri Srain <jsrain@xxxxxxx>]

Dne Friday 01 of August 2008 11:21:16 Kevin Ivory napsal(a):
> Hi,
>
> On 2008-07-31 18:09, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> > Any feedback appreciated.
>
> We use lilo for all Software RAID1 systems on SLES & openSUSE
>
> the typical lilo.conf entries are:
> raid-extra-boot = mbr-only
> boot = /dev/md3
> root = /dev/md3
>
>
> Calling lilo then automatically writes the boot-records on the
> necessary disks:
> The Master boot record of  /dev/sda  has been updated.
> Warning: /dev/sdb is not on the first disk
> The Master boot record of  /dev/sdb  has been updated.
>
>
> Is this as easily possible with Grub/YaST combination?

Yes, GRUB can boot on MD arrays (see my other mail in this thread).
YaST shall be able to handle it as well.

In short: To make GRUB boot from an RAID1 MD array, all you need to do is to 
refer to one of the member partitions in menu.lst. The setup line needs to be 
duplicated for each of the disks in order to make GRUB install to both of the 
disks.

Hope that helps a bit.

Jiri


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Regards,

Jiri Srain
YaST Team Leader
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