On Thursday 07 December 2006 23:07, Jason Tower wrote: > 1. the bootloader is installed on the MBR of the first disk only. if that > disk goes bye bye you're in trouble. sure, you can install lilo/grub on > multiple MBRs but that's a pita and an inelegant solution.
I don't really have any comments regarding 2 and 3, but I think I disagree that it's that much of a pita to install grub on two disks (and would you really need to install it on more than two disks?) You just run grub, tell it a root, tell it to setup, tell it the other root, tell it to setup again, then quit. Of course, I don't think I'd like to try this on 30 disks or anything like that, but it works pretty well for what a viable software RAID system would be (it's how I have mine set up!) R -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
