On 05/07/12 23:10, Tom H wrote:
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Alan Chandler
<a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk> wrote:
I am trying to figure out how to move my current rootfs to raid1 (its just a
partition at the moment).
The plan is to make a a raid device, copy the current root fs in to it - but
I then need to tell grub to set up this up as the root for the boot.
grub-install /dev/sdX
Reading the man page for this doesn't say how it finds out where the
root filesystem is. Thats the bit that is confusing me.
I currently have a root filesystem on /dev/sdb1. I am not sure which
disk contains the mbr - but it boots and then loads the root from there.
I have created a partially degraded mdadm raid array /dev/md0 comprising
/dev/sda1 and an empty slot. My desire is to install grub on both
/dev/sda and /dev/sdb to boot up from /dev/md0. When that is working I
will retire /dev/sdb1 and add it as the second component of /dev/md0.
The magic appears to be in grub-mkconfig (wrapped with update-grub).
But I am also confused as to whether I need to do anything about an
initramfs.
I want to achieve the mimimum of downtime on the machine I am trying to
make this work on, and am worried that if I go too far without properly
understanding what would happen I may end up with an unbootable system.
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Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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