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Re: install-mbr on amd64?



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.
> 
> But grub-install also has some special code for raids. Why it doesn't
> work or isn't good enough should be someones TODO. Maybe we could make
> that a NM job :)

grub-install works fine here with /boot on a raid1.  It has ever since
sarge was released (raid1 support was added sometime in early 2005 it
seems).  No tricks required.

Len Sorensen



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