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]
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