Second stage grub (grub1.5) must be locked to specific tracks and sectors in the
/boot partition, which therefore can not be in a raid partition. I believe
that this is
necessary because first stage grub does not understand any file systems, and
must
know only where (what tracks and sectors) to find grub1.5. It is grub1.5 that
knows
ext2 and ext2 filesystems, and so it can find your kernel by specifying
pathname.
I believe RAID will not allow locking to fixed sector numbers. Please tell
me if my
understanding of grub is wrong.
P~Manalastas
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Jerome Gotangco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/8/07, Mhac Janapin wrote:
> Just a wild hunch: should /boot get a partition of its own outside of the
> raid?
It will work, but why it must be done like that I have no clue.
My hunch is that the partition inside the raid wasn't flagged to be
bootable, considering the partition was done manually. If this is the
case, just put back the CD and do a rescue and apply a boot flag on
the partition and rewrite grub.
--
Best,
Jerome Gotangco
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