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Re: amd64 debian installation steps



On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 12:22:53AM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> ... 
> I understand that raid is to configure after having created the partitions.  I 
> have seen - going back - the grub vs lilo choice. If I understand, to get a 
> second HD bootable - should the first one fail - I have to select lilo as 
> boot loader (after having configured raid1 or during that?)
> 
> Thanks a lot for your guidance (and exquisite patience).
> 
> francesco
> 
Hello,

as I have written to this list on 21 May 2006 21:19:28 +0200
under 'install-mbr on amd64?' grub does work well with RAID1.

To enable booting from all disks in the RAID, you just need
to run 'grub-install /dev/xxy' where xxy is, e.g. hdb or sdb,
depending on your system, after you installed grub within d-i.

Or, as written in the Software-RAID HOWTO: call grub and type:
grub>device (hd0) /dev/xxy
grub>root (hd0,0)       
grub>setup (hd0)

If you do not plan extraordinary boot related things, both,
lilo or grub, should work for you. To a large degree it is
a matter of taste (no flamewar, please).

Alexander



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