On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 16:15 +0530, Siju George wrote: > On 6/14/05, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Uh, no. If you want to install Sarge with RAID-1, create identical > > partitions on both disks and tell Sarge you want to use them as > > Physical Volume for RAID. Then go into the Sarge Configure software > > RAID menu and create MD devices (RAID volumes) -- you will be prompted > > for the partitions to use for each RAID volume. > > > > Once the RAID volumes are created you can continue specifying mount > > point, FS type, etc for each volume exactly as you would for a normal > > disk partition. > > > > All this is from the last time I installed Sarge with RAID, over 6 > > months ago, so may be a bit rusty. > > > > Thankyou so much Raj you gave me all the info I neded and 1 compleated > RAID1 configuration on Sarge with the above steps successfully. > > BUT I think the Sarge installer instaled GRUB only on hd0 and not on hd1!!!
To do this (#comments may be wrapped): 1. sfdisk -a /dev/firstdisk > partitions.firstdisk #hda/sda depends on hardware. 2. sfdisk -a /dev/seconddisk > partition.seconddisk #these two just to keep partition information. 3. grub # this will drop you to grub prompt >find /grub/stage1 #note the output (hd0,0)(hd1,0) #This is showing all drives, in grub addressing, available >device (hd0) /dev/sdb # hdb for ide >root (hd0,0) #making second drive as first temporarily for next step >setup (hd0) # watch output fly past as MBR is generated on second disk >quit 4. Now run the system with either hard disk plugged out to test boot. Do not go beyond boot else your raid will need to be re-synced. HTH -- Sudev Barar Learning Linux ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
