Hi Thomas,

Nachricht vom Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2003, 16:21:29:

> Hello,

> I've installed Gentoo on a RAID1 System with 2 x 40GB Harddisks
> and I use Grub as bootloader. My 'grub.conf' looks like this:


>> default 0
>> timeout 30
>> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>>
>> title=Gentoo-Platte1
>> root (hd0,0)
>> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.23_pre6-gss-r1 root=/dev/md2
>> initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.4.23_pre6-gss-r1
>>
>> title=Gentoo-Platte2
>> root (hd1,0)
>> kernel (hd1,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.23_pre6-gss-r1 root=/dev/md2
>> initrd (hd1,0)/boot/initrd-2.4.23_pre6-gss-r1

> I thought it was possible to boot from the second disk too, if
> the the first fails, but when I try to boot from the second disk,
> the only thing I get is, the whole screen filled with the word grub.
> At the moment the system is working quite well, but what will
> happen when the first disk fails? Is there a possibility to boot
> gentoo from both disks with grub? Maybe someone else has had the
> problem before and got a solution.

I have that working on about 5 machines. Make sure you do have grub
installed on >BOTH< disks MBR's and marked the partitions on both
installed on disks as active.


> Thanks for any help,

> Thomas


 Timo


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