Mukund wrote: > Hi David, Karan > > On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 09:43 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> David J. Malan wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I went ahead and set up OpenFiler 1.1.1 on an old Pentium III with two 250GB >>> PATA hard drives (one master, one slave), and, with the OpenFiler installer, >>> created 4 RAID-1 devices using the two drives as follows: >>> >>> md0: /boot [100 MB] >>> md1: / [4096 MB] >>> md2: swap [2048 MB] >>> md3: LVM [rest of space] >> grub does not handle s/w raid for /boot in its present form, there are a >> few patches available that bring this functionality in, but we're not >> rolling that in till there has been enough testing. >> > > This is slightly incorrect. The functionality is there. When you > configure an MD device for /boot in Anaconda, and say it's a RAID-1 > mirror device, it sets up grub on both the member disks. Of course, the > BIOS only boots one of them. >
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/ref-guide/s1-grub-installing.html the raid issue is mentioned on the page. 0.95-6 of grub will fix this issue directly, but wont be in < 4U5, maybe by the end of this year. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users
