[ale] RAID1

Dow Hurst Dow.Hurst at mindspring.com
Tue Oct 5 08:13:47 EDT 2004


Does RAID only mirror the partitions and not the MBR?  If so, which I 
think would be right, then grub would not be found on hdb.  Where is 
grub coming from right now?  Just curious since you say hda has "gone 
bad."  Would you be more specific?  Thanks,
Dow


Christopher Fowler wrote:

>I've got 2 120GB drives under Linux raid.
>
>hda:
>1. Swap
>2. Part of MD0
>
>hdb
>1. Swap
>2. Part of MD0
>
>hda has gone bad and I need to run hdb.  Since there were mirrored how
>can I run hdb2 as root instead of part of a mirror.  Do I need to 
>run a command?
>
>Grub was on those drives and now grub refuses to boot.  I assume it
>may be because grub should not really be part of a raid structure?
>
>Chris
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