Ben wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, John Summerfield wrote:
>
>> Ben wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, solarflow99 wrote:
>>>
>>>> It would also be possible to install grub on the other drive
>>>> manually if that is good enough, I have the grub commands if you need.
>>>
>>> That's helpful, thanks... but I'd still like to know why it's
>>> choosing the MBR of sdb over the one on sda!
>>
>> I did a manual install to a dc7700. Here is the relevant section from
>> anaconda-ks.cfg
>> bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=hda,hdc
>> --append="pci=nomsi,nommconf vga=794 rhgb quiet"
>> [...]
>
> Yeah, my bootloader line was of the form
>
>   bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda
>
> Maybe I should have added ",sdb" to the end?

It's an idea worth trying, I think.

>
>
>> Now, the drive names _might_ be signficant. So might the fact that the
>> bootloader line lists two drives.
>
> That's perhaps my thinking. But here's a twist:
>
> I set up two RAID1 arrays. Array one contained disks 0 and 1, array two
> contained disks 2 and 3. That was also the order in which I created
> them. Pre OS-installation the LSI BIOS listed "Array 1 of 2" as the one
> containing disks 0 and 1 and "Array 2 of 2" as having the other pair.
> "Scan Order" was listed as "0" for the RAID1 array with disks 0 and 1,
> and "2" for the second array. I'm assuming these were (SCSI?) ID
> numbers (see below).

Now I'm thoroughly lost; I don't know whether you're using SCSI or
serial ATA, and I know nothing about them SUNs, and next to nothing
about SCSI.

I just saw some similarities between what you are doing, and what I
did, and it seemed to me that what I did is close to what you want to do.




> Should I go and stick my head in a pig?

What sort of pig do you have in mind:-)

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