Re: raid1 bootable disks
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 02:49:11PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> Just to add that
> #fdisk /dev/sda
> or
> #fdisk /dev/sdb
>
> followed by
> p
>
> gives the identical layout of partitions for both sda and sdb, in particular
>
> Device: /dev/sda1 (or sdb1)
> Boot: *
> Start: 1
> End: 365
> Blocks: 2931831
> Id: fd
> System: Linux raid autodetect
>
> Does that * for boot on both sda and sdb mean anything?
If you have grub installed in the MBR, then it doesn't matter what the
boot flag is set to on any partition since nothing will look at it. If
grub is installed to one of the partitions, then whatever code is in the
MBR probably does care what partition is bootable, since it has to jump
to the boot block of that partition. Of course in that case you do want
the boot partition set bootable on both drives so that whichever one you
are booting from, can find the right partition to jump to. Putting grub
in the MBR and not worrying at all about the boot flag is the simplest
however.
--
Len Sorensen
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