Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Damon L. Chesser wrote: > >Chris Willard wrote: > >>Hi All, > >> > >>I have a pc with 3x40GB IDE drives. > >> > >>I have 2 RAID 5 devices setup- > >> > >>/dev/md0 = 3 x 38GB as / > >>/dev/md1 = 3 x 2GB as SWAP > >> > >>Debian base installs OK but when I get to the Grub installation I get a > >>"Fatal Error" message. > >> > >>I am telling Grub to install on /dev/md0 but it won't install. > >> > >>Any tips would be appreciated. > >> > >>Regards, > >> > >>Chris > >> > >> > >> > >Chris, > > > >AFAIK, grub can only be set up on a raid0 or a raid1 device. So far, > >I can not document this, but I seem to recall that fact. As others > >said, you need to install grub on REAL devices. You can see > >www.damtek.com for a (I hope rather thorough) walk through on how to > >set up grub on a raid. > > > Just adding more info on the on the raid0 and raid1 and grub. I have > just remembered where I got that info from. RHEL-4 will only let you > select raid0 or raid1 for the /boot partition, or for / if /boot is not > a separate partition during install. I suspect this is a RHEL issue and > not a grub issue, but truly, I don't know. I just did not want to be > putting out bad info, so I thought I would expand on why I thought only > raid0 and raid1 would work for grub. > > Since I can't find any documentation on the limits of raid and grub, I > suspect you can run raid5. Anybody willing to confirm this for me? > > -- > Damon L. Chesser > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My experience with raid5 was that grub cannot be installed on it. I had to setup grub on each drive in my mirror separatel. I ended up setting up a small /boot then setting up grub on each disk in the mirror. If I recall correctly, grub was installed on /dev/hda only, so I ran setup on /dev/hdb etc... just from my own experience, I'm no expert. scott lair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]