On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 06:31:10PM +0100, piccardi wrote:
> As far I remind (not having used it for years) LILO can install itself
> the MBR of all disk of a software RAID just using the device name of the
> array  itself as value of the boot parameter. So if the first disk of
> the array fails you can still boot from the second (if the BIOS is
> properly configured and allow you to start from the second one).

But if /dev/md0 is /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 then md0 is just the boot
sector of sda1 and sdb1 which installing grub to /dev/md0 would do the
same thing.  If you run full disk raid so /dev/md0 is /dev/sda and
/dev/sdb (which I never do), then I suspect installing grub on it, may
work the same as with lilo.

> What I was trying to tell (sorry, but my english knoweledge is quite
> limited) is that to have the same behaviour with GRUB you have to
> install it on the MBR of both disk. It can be done quite easily and it's
> documented by many howto. That's all.
> 
> But this seem to exceed, at least on my opinion, the level of knoweldge
> required for an LPI 1 exam.

Probably.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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