You should have a /boot partition.  That is what you boot from, not 
root. Do you have a separate /boot partition?

mw

On Wednesday 25 December 2002 01:23 pm, Justin Zygmont wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Mike Watson wrote:
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> > >
> > > Message: 5
> > > Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 15:45:15 -0500 (EST)
> > > From: Justin Zygmont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: RAID 1 problem
> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > I have been testing a raid 1 installation and I have noticed that
> > > only hda is actually bootable.  I'm using / as the raid partition
> > > and when I disconnect hda and try to boot from hdc, all i get is
> > > a line saying GRUB and that's it.  Both raid partitions are
> > > active on each drive.
> >
> > First, where is your /BOOT partition?  You should have one on each
> > disk.  Then, using Grub, make each disk bootable.  Each /BOOT must
> > have a Grub folder wih a Grub grub.conf.  You should have
> > partitioned each disk identically.  That way you can use the same
> > grub.conf.  If you didn't, then each disk must have a gurb.conf
> > configured to match the partition scheme of that disk.
> >
> > It worked for me.
>
> Is this really necessary, I tested a 7.3 install and each drive
> worked on it's own easily when I tried to simulate a drive failure. 
> With 8.0 it doesn't look like it will do that for some reason, I can
> still mount the second HD but cannot boot off of it.
>
> Can anyone on the list that was a software RAID 1 scheme similar to
> mine ( /dev/md0 = / ) confirm that their system will boot off either
> drive?
>
> thanks..

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