Hi How can I install grub to say the /dev/sdp device (root partition on sdp1) in a server so that that disk could replace a failed one in a production system and boot as sda?
In my setup, disks (including partitions for root and data) are mirrored between production and server systems (using rsync) to provide a quick swap backup in the event of disk failure on the production system. I have a script that fixes up the UUID of disk partitions etc in fstab and grub.conf on the mirror as these are different from the production system disks, but I don't know how to get grub installed on eg /dev/sdp so that I can boot it straight away when the disk is swapped into the production system where it will be /dev/sda. Currently I have to boot into a rescue mode and use grub-install once the disk is swapped in to the production system to be able to get it to boot. This is grub 0.97 on Fedora 14 x86_64. Thanks for any pointers anyone can give. Roderick Johnstone _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
