Re: RAID 1

From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen_at_tmr.com)
Date: 12/27/03 

Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 10:56:51 -0500

Clayton Sutton wrote:
> See my other post in this group. "RAID 1 question". I asked that question
> about mirroring the /boot partition and didn't get a real answer. Can you
> provide more feedback?
>
> Yes, it is software RAID. What does "AFAIK" mean". When you say you
> "can't" mirror the boot sector, which one is the boot sector? / or /boot?
> I'm thinking it's /boot because it's in the first cylinder.

Not the boot partition, the boot sector. If you are running lilo as the
boot loader and hdb as the mirror, you would (as root) run
   lilo -b /dev/hdb
to write the boot sector. If you are running grub you have my best
wishes at finding someone who can help you. Not my thing. 

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
   CTO TMR Associates, Inc
   Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

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