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Damon Register wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
Lilo? Glenn, its 2004. Use Grub. Thats the SuSE standard.
not of much value if there is little information in the RAID area. At the end of last year I tried to setup soft RAID with SuSE 9.0. After a lot of web searching I found some information but all of it was for Lilo. When Grub was mentioned, it was something like "I have heard this will work with Grub but have not tested it". Has that changed in the last 7 months? Is there some useful information for soft RAID and Grub?
Damon Register
Install your system normally, creating the raid array during the install. The installer will automatically change from grub to lilo. You can change to grub later and make the system boot from either drive. NOTE: only RAID 1 (mirror) can be used for your boot partition. Once the system is up, install the grub software and then install grub on both MBRs like this: grub Grub>device (hd0) /dev/hda Grub>root (hd0,0) and then: Grub>setup (hd0) Grub>device (hd0) /dev/hdb Grub>root (hd0,0) and then: Grub>setup (hd0) quit Now that grub is on both drives just add an extra entry in menu.1st like this: title Linux [MIRROR] kernel (hd1,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/md2 vga=0x317 splash=silent desktop resume=/dev/md3 showopts initrd (hd1,1)/boot/initrd This is just a copy of whatever you have for linux already but changing the drive number in parenthesis. Depending on how your motherboard's BIOS handles a failed drive, you may or may not need the second entry to boot. HTH, Louis