[plug] Grub and RAID-1
Russ Pitman
rjp at belle.apana.org.au
Mon Sep 8 17:04:54 WST 2003
Brad Campbell wrote:
> G'day all,
>
> Calling all GRUB guru's....
>
> Setting up a box here with mirrored 120GB drives. I used to do this with
> lilo, and it was clever enough to sort it all out pretty automaticly.
>
> I found a howto somewhere on the net and followed it, but when I unplug
> hda and fire it up, I just get a grub error message telling me it's
> misconfigured.
>
> My /boot/grub/menu.conf
>
> default 2
> fallback 3
>
> timeout 2
>
> color cyan/blue white/blue
>
> title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 root=/dev/hda1 ro
> savedefault
>
> title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 (recovery mode)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 root=/dev/hda1 ro single
> savedefault
>
> title 2.4.22 (hda)
> kernel (hd0,0)/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage root=/dev/md0
>
> title 2.4.22 (hdc)
> Kernel (hd1,0)/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage root=/dev/md0
>
> My /boot/grub/device.map
>
> (fd0) /dev/fd0
> (hd0) /dev/hda
> (hd1) /dev/hdc
>
> I set grub up with a grub-install, then ran grub
>
> grub> root (hd0,0)
> grub> setup (hd0)
> grub> root (hd1,0)
> grub> setup (hd1)
>
> as per the howto, and it boot's fine off hda, but when hda is unplugged,
> I can't get it to boot off hdc. The bios will do it, but I have
> misconfigured grub somewhere.
>
> Any suggestions?
> Cheers,
> Brad
>
Know nothing about Raid,Normally (hd0)= /dev/hda
(hd1)= /dev/hdb
(hd2)= /dev/hdc
Perhaps I'm confused :-)
--
Cheers
Russ.
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