Art Fore wrote: > I would assume grub is installed on the mbr when booting non-raid, is > that right? Not if you haven't changed the default. > If so, when I install with raid setup, would not the new > grub go in the mbr? not in 10.2. They changed the default to install grub somewhere else and install a generic mbr. That was supposed to fix problem, but for me only caused problems. > How can I tell if grub is in the mbr anyhow? > /etc/sysconfig/bootloader or through Yast etc/sysconfig Editor. Variable is LOADER_LOCATION. > On my system with raid, where you have root=(hd0,4) I have (hd1,0). I > have root installed on MD) which is sda1 and sdc1. > > Where then is your boot? Do you only have SATA drives? Does /boot/grub/device.map confirm hd1 is either sda1 or sdc1? Our office server also boots from a raid 1 from SATA disks, so SATA is not the problem, just make sure device.map is correct. If all of those settings are correct, and it still will not work, boot to the rescue system, mount your raid 1 to mnt, cd /mnt and chroot, then run the grub command, followed by root (hd 1,0), then setup (hd1). This will give you a visual confirmation of what grub actually knows. BTW, assuming sda1 is hd0,0 and sdc1 is hd1,0, while you are in grub, you can also install grub on the mbr of sda by changing the 1 to 0, i.e. root (hd0,0), setup (hd0). Then, you could boot from either disk.
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