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cagsm wrote:
i have dug around a bit and found:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=398356 marked as resolved after 11.0, but as i am using 11.1 this is still not fixed for me. i only have two partitions on each identical sata disk, first one SWAP, and second (rest of disk is simply / )
that creates md0 (swap) and md1 (/ )
never the less, grub only gets installed to the first (sda) disk, but never to the second (sdb). when i remove the sdb disk, the system boots up fine in raid1 degraded mode, when i remove the sda any only try booting the system with the sdb disk, the system never comes up as i have described before.
so this bug never got fixed in the first place i think.
I Create a Grub Floppy for exactly this situation that can boot the raid normal, and also in degraded mode if one or the other disk dies. I set the bios to boot from the first HD and then the Floppy. I've been doing it this way since Suse 8.something. There are fairly lucid instructions on how to build a grub boot diskette somewhere on the web. As long as one of your mirrors are operational you will be able to get up and running. Should you have to do it this way? No. But its nice to have the option. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org