On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Dirk Lutzebaeck wrote:
DL> "/boot=/dev/md?" line which was suggested in an earlier thread? I
DL> don't see how this works. Going back to Dirk Lutzebaeck's problem
DL> with this, he used "boot=/dev/md0". /dev/md0 is a mirror of
DL> /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1. Why then does lilo try to install to
DL> /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, not to /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1?
because the system doesn't boot off of the first partition, it boots off
of the boot block on the disk (ie: the first part of /dev/sd[ab]). ie:
lilo is trying to be smart about this.
(on an aside: I wonder if this would also work with a RAID-[45] array...
if one disk fails, it could still boot in degraded mode. have to try it
one of these days.)
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