Re: software raid - no grub?
On (12/06/05 23:34), Graham Seaman wrote:
> I just bought a new machine and installed the new debian on it. It has 2
> drives and I wanted
> to run software raid on them so I was really impressed when it came up
> as an install option.
> The problem is, now I can't always boot: as far as I can work out (after
> about 10 attempts,
> so it does seem to be fairly consistent) the pattern is that on a reboot
> the machine fails to
> find the bootloader, but on a cold start following power off the
> machine does find the
> bootloader. Once booted, everything seems to be fine - except that
> dmesg reports
> a BIOS problem with pnp.
>
> Googling around tells me that the BIOS warning is probably unrelated and
> safe to ignore,
You should probably disable pnp but I suspect that has no bearing on
your soft boot problem
> and that there were historical problems with grub as bootloader on raid
> systems. Is there
> anything I can do about this? Or should I use LILO instead? Or could
> I have flaky hardware?
>
> I'm completely new to raid, so any advice in baby steps, please... :-)
>
You might find the following useful:
http://unthought.net/Software-RAID.HOWTO/Software-RAID.HOWTO.html
http://juerd.nl/site.plp/debianraid
http://rootraiddoc.alioth.debian.org/
http://deb.riseup.net/storage/software-raid/
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2002/12/05/RAID.html?page=2
Regards
Clive
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