Re: question about mdadm + grub interaction

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 04:39:25PM -0800, Steve Lane wrote:
Greetings. In order to insure that a Debian stock kernel (i.e. the
kernel installed from the linux-image-2.6.22-2-686-bigmem package) boots
correctly off of a mdadm RAID 1 set of two disks if one of the disks is
dead, do we:

1) Have to manually install grub on the MBR on *both* drives, or is this
done automagically by the grub package installer if the RAID 1 set
is in place at the time of the grub install?

this is what I did and it works fine.


2) Need to have something that looks like this in /boot/grub/menu.lst:

don't know about md= options so can't comment.

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