Thanks to all who confirmed that this should work, and gave pointers to
more reading material.
Further investigation proved that the problem is caused by the Smart
Array Controllers that HP uses. As these "Smart" controllers don't
allow for JBOD configs, I had configured each disk as RAID 0
Mike Hardy wrote:
This works for me, there are several pages out there (I recall using the
commands from a gentoo one most recently) that show the exact sequence
of grub things you should do to get grub in the MBR of both disks.
It sounds like your machine may not be set to boot off of anything
This works for me, there are several pages out there (I recall using the
commands from a gentoo one most recently) that show the exact sequence
of grub things you should do to get grub in the MBR of both disks.
It sounds like your machine may not be set to boot off of anything other
than that one
(crossposted to linux-raid@vger.kernel.org and redhat-list@redhat.com)
(apologies for this, but this should have be operational last week)
I installed Red Hat EL AS 4 on a HP Proliant DL380, and configured all
system devices in software RAID 1. I added an entry to grub.conf to
fallback to the s