Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2007-06-23 at 07:58 -0400, James Knott wrote:
I've just installed SUSE 10.2, using RAID 5, on an IBM Netfinity x232 server. I created one small partition for /boot, a RAID array over 4 disks for / and a 2nd RAID for swap. I assume I could replicate the /boot partition across all 4 drives and add them to GRUB.
I think you should. Not only /boot, but also the MBR part of grub, so that you can boot from any of the four disks. I'm not sure exactly of the best manner to do this;
IMHO, the best and easiest way is through the grub command line, i.e grub grub> root (hd0,1) grub> setup (hd0) grub> root (hd1,1) grub> setup (hd1) ...etc, then grub> quit hd0,1 corresponds to first hd, second partition (assuming swap is the first partition, adjust as needed. Then add corresponding entries in menu.lst, and add a fallback #, with #= the menu entry of the second disk, etc. Do a search for RAID+GRUB for a step by step set of instructions. HTH. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org