"Stanley, Jeremy" wrote:
> I think the question was whether there was a way to successfully mirror
> the MBR and boot kernel onto a second drive for redundancy...
> --
> Jeremy Stanley Trend CMHS
> Network Engineer http://www.trendcmhs.org
>
> The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily
> represent those of Trend CMHS or Trend Foundation.
>
> "I program my homecomputer; beam myself into
> the future." --Kraftwerk, 1981
>
> > ----------
> > From: Brian Murphy[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 6:39 AM
> > To: Thomas Seidel; Linux Raid
> > Subject: Re: Lilo and Root Mirroring (was: Software Mirroring and
> > the root pa
> >
> > There is no need for all this complication. At the start of the first
> > disk create a small
> > partition /boot
> > which contains the kernel and lilo files (chain loader etc) i.e what
> > is normally in /boot.
> >
> [snip]
Create identical partitions on the second disk (or as many as you like,
disk
space is cheap these days) and dd from the boot sector and the first two
partitions on /dev/sda, the boot and rescue to make an identical copy.
If a disk dies (and you are using SCSI) the next in line takes over
(as /dev/sda) and the system will boot from it. You dont need active
mirroring
of these partitions as the data changes infrequently.
Brian Murphy
