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Re: Grub, MBR's on several hard drives?



On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 03:27:45PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I recall reading that if the system has multiple hard drives it is a
> good idea mbr's on each of the hard drives all pointing to the same root
> directory located on one of the hard drives.
> 
> Is this correct?
> 
> If this is correct how is this best done with grub?
> 
I think this applies mainly for RAID configurations.  If you only have
grub installed on one drive, and that drive goes bad, you will end up
with a usable system but no way to boot it.

-Rob


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