Scott Reese wrote:
Kilian wrote:Dear All, I'm trying to set up a software RAID 1 (two disks) with Debian on a system with an AMD x86_64 Athlon processor. To install the MBR on both discs, I need install-mbr (http://packages.debian.org/stable/base/mbr) if I'm correct, but this package does not exist in the amd64 port... I then tried to compile it myself, which fails, obviously, because the package has not been ported to x86_64 yet as it seems (and I lack the knowledge to do so...). I'm a bit stuck now.. what other tools can I use?You don't say what boot loader you're using, but if you are using grub, you can simply install the MBR to the second disk using the grub terminal.
Thanks a lot for your reply!I'm using lilo as bootloader, but as grub is way more modern, I might just switch to grub.
The thing is, the machine I'm working on is remote and I have no console access, so everything is a bit tricky. It's already running, has two identical SATA disks, the second one (sdb) is not used. What I want to do is create a RAID 1 array with only sdb (but with the possibility to add sda later). Then I boot from this new RAID array, repartition sda and add it to the RAID array. I've gotten so far as setting up the RAID array, chrooting into it and bootstrap a Debian system on it, compile an new kernel, but when it comes to set up bootloaders, the howto I'm using <http://juerd.nl/site.plp/debianraid> tells me to run:
$ lilo $ install-mbr /dev/sda $ install-mbr /dev/sdb Do you think I could accomplish the same result by only using grub? -- Kilian