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> From: redhat-list-admin@(protected) [mailto:redhat-list-admin@(protected)]
> On Behalf Of Pete Nesbitt
> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 7:00 PM
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> Subject: Re: Trouble with GRUB and multiple HD 's
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> On February 7, 2004 04:42 pm, Harry Hoffman wrote:
> > Yep, it 's bootable (as per fdisk) :-)
> >
> > Quoting Otto Haliburton <ottohaliburton@(protected) >:
> >
> >
> > * > >
> > * > IMHO you need /dev/had to be bootable, if it is not bootable then
> there
> > is * > no MBR there to boot to, if you know what I mean.
> > * >
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> Hi,
> The software RAID is required before you can access the software raided
> drives. Are you trying to load that as a module or is compiled into the
> kernel.
> If I have this right, if raid is comiled into the kernel, then /boot needs
> to
> be a regular partition (non raid) if your using modules, you cannot set
> either / or /boot as a raid partition because it needs to access the
> modules
> on / to load the raid.
>
> So it boot / as raid, compile your kernel with raid and make sure /boot is
> not
> in the raid set.
> --
> Pete Nesbitt, rhce
>
>
I agree with Pete, I was about to say that grub supports RAID disk so the
fact that disk are raided should not be a limitation. But, Grub should be
able to figure things out. If you are running grub-install from a active
system or from the boot floppy.
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