> The issue mentioned on that page is not what the poster is > facing. The issue on that page indicates that if the master > disk of the RAID array goes bad, the array may become > unusable as the BIOS tries to boot from /dev/hda and if > /dev/hda is dead, it can't boot off it. If /dev/hdb is also > configured as bootable, grub can be installed on both disks. > We migrated to this exact RAID-1 configuration on lucifer > (one of Nerdfest's servers) as I had told you a few days ago. > It maybe possible to boot with a partially faulty hda too. > > Grub works fine with a MD RAID-1 /boot (my workstation I'm > typing this mail from uses it, my old server maya used it and > lucifer uses it).
Thanks, Karanbir and Mukund, for all the thoughts. It turns out, despite configuring them with Disk Druid for RAID-1, hda wasn't being mirrored to hdb after installation. Once I manually did a raidhotadd of hdb* to md* for each of the arrays, I was then able to boot off of either drive (with its jumper configured accordingly), at least with LILO, which I changed over to while testing... David _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users
