Re: install-mbr on amd64?
Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu> writes:
> On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 04:29:36PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>
>> You have to trick grub-install. Say /boot is on /dev/md0, a raid1 of
>> /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1. Then you can put /dev/sda1 into devices.map,
>> instal-grub, repeat for sdb1. You might have to change fstab and/or
>> mtab as well. Can't remeber if that is truely needed.
>
> ... and that's why I do not use grub whith software raid. It is much
> more awkward to set up than lilo, there is no documentation, and it is
> less reliable. Lilo at least displays some letters when something goes
> wrong so you know what did you do wrong; grub just hangs without any
> messages at all.
>
> If you want fancy boot, go with grub. If you want reliable boot from an
> md device, go with lilo.
>
> Gabor
Lilo can't boot because of bios checksum errors. Ever since then I use
grub.
I think I will look into grub stage0 code and grub-install concerning
raid support this weekend. It really can't be that hard to patch in
better support for it.
MfG
Goswin
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