Ivan Glushkov wrote:
> Damon L. Chesser wrote:
>
>> snip
>>
>>> I taught I have to install the grub on the raid array, thus the grub
>>> will put a copy of itself on the first partition on both hard drives,
>>> used for the raid1, right?
>>>
>>>
>> Wrong AFAIK. You can do that IF you have a boot loader on the MBR
>> pointing to grub.
>>
>
> Now I am confused. Isn't grub a boot loader? Why would I need another
> boot loader pointing to grub? I want to put grub on the MBR of both hard
> drives from which my raid1 array consist of.
>
You could use Windows boot loader to point to grub, for example. It
would give you a menu in Windows boot to pick Windows or Debian. Have
not done that in years.

> grub-install /dev/md0
> should install (as fas as I understand it) a copy of grub in each hdd
> from which the raid1 consist of (note: the partitions from both hard
> drives included in md0 are both 512 MB and starting from the beginning
> of the hard drives).
>
Ivan,

I looked quickly on google and so far articles I see refer to installing
grub onto the 2nd HD using the grub command. I will go back and look at
the howto you posted and see if they say anything different. I am NOT
the raid/grub master and sure not the final word on the subject.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Ivan
>
>
>

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