Re: Questions on RAID 1 - Mirroring

[email protected] Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:54:59 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.guinness
Organization B. L. Kline & Associates, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> "Wilson, Allan" wrote:
> 
> But if I unplug the first
> hard drive with the /boot partition simulating drive failure it will
> not boot (of course). If anyone has had any experience in setting
> this up or knows of some good resources for RAID I would be very
> appreciative. Thanks for any help
> 

Hi Allan.

Although your partitions are mirrored, the MBR is not.  You need to
install lilo on each drive, separately.  That way if the first drive
pukes the second is bootable.  

Barry



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