It would also be possible to install grub on the other drive manually if
that is good enough, I have the grub commands if you need.




On 4/15/08, Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> We have some Sun x4200 M2 servers with four disks in arranged in two RAID1
> sets.  These manifest as sda and sdb.
>
> Whenever I try to install RHEL5.1 64-bit (via USB stick->HTTP kickstart)
> the boxes refuse to boot after the installation has finished and I hit
> reboot.
>
> Doing a manual install it appears that despite
>
> [...]
> ignoredisk --drives=sdc,sdd,sde
> zerombr yes
> bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda --append="console=ttyS0,9600
> rhgb quiet"
> clearpart --all --drives=sda,sdb
> part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=sda --asprimary
> part swap --size=16384 --ondisk=sda --asprimary
> part / --fstype ext3 --size=1 --grow --ondisk=sda --asprimary
> part /VM-storage --fstype ext3 --size=1 --grow --ondisk=sdb --asprimary
> [...]
>
> It looks like the bootloader is being installed into the MBR on sdb, which
> is very strange.  By definition the BIOS is set to boot from id0 (sda)
> rather than id2 (sdb).  Can anyone tell me what's going on and how to get
> the installer to install the bootloader in the MBR of sda, please?
>
> Ben
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