On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 02:18:14PM +0200, Kilian wrote: > I'm using lilo as bootloader, but as grub is way more modern, I might > just switch to grub. > > The thing is, the machine I'm working on is remote and I have no console > access, so everything is a bit tricky. It's already running, has two > identical SATA disks, the second one (sdb) is not used. What I want to > do is create a RAID 1 array with only sdb (but with the possibility to > add sda later). Then I boot from this new RAID array, repartition sda > and add it to the RAID array. I've gotten so far as setting up the RAID > array, chrooting into it and bootstrap a Debian system on it, compile an > new kernel, but when it comes to set up bootloaders, the howto I'm using > <http://juerd.nl/site.plp/debianraid> tells me to run: > > $ lilo > $ install-mbr /dev/sda > $ install-mbr /dev/sdb > > Do you think I could accomplish the same result by only using grub?
Unless you also have windows on the system, there is no reason to not put the boot loader in the MBR directly rather than on to one of the partitions. Both lilo and grub can install directly to the MBR and work from there without the install-mbr at all. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
