[luau] bootable raid and the MBR

[R. Scott Belford]

> Chris Kloiber of Red Hat Enterprise Support gave another suggestion
> (attached).  I was thinking the same thing although I thought you tried
> this already.  I can SSH into the box and transfer the GRUB to the MBR
> of your SCSI array if you want.

Thanks a ton, Warren.  I am going to piddle with it this morning.  If I 
have listened better to Eric last night, I might have seen this.

> From: Chris Kloiber <ckloiber at redhat.com>
> Date: Fri May 24, 2002  09:21:10 PM Pacific/Honolulu
> To: valhalla-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [luau] bootable raid and the MBR
> Reply-To: valhalla-list at redhat.com
>
> The boot record is on the disconnected IDE drive. Boot from it,
> reconfigure GRUB or LILO to install a boot record on the MBR of the
> array, and write it there. Make a boot floppy just in case, then power
> down and remove the IDE drive and try rebooting from the Hardware RAID
> array.

The simplicity pains me.  Why is brilliance always so simple?

>
>> Adaptec says that it is supposed to boot and there must be something
>> wrong with the mboard.  Tyan says they get this alot and that I need to
>> make sure my controller is BBS or something like that, compliant.  I
>> wrote the acronym down at work, but I am not there.  Apparently the
>> controller is compliant, that's why I can see it specifically in Tyan's
>> bios boot order.  The problem here may not be with either.  The problem
>> may be with scott :-)
>>
>> I have a question after all this, I think.  How can I put the MBR on 
>> the
>> RAID array?  I have never had to "put" and MBR anywhere, but perhaps I
>> must boot from a floppy and format the mbr or something.  I don't think
>> that I can boot with a win98 floppy and run fdisk mbr to do this.  Is
>> there something comically easy that I am missing?  Does any wise soul
>> have a suggestion or some insight into this?  You know, come to think 
>> of
>> it. I did not try to boot with another installation CD.  Surely this
>> couldn't be an issue, could it?
>
> Never tried it with grub yet, but with LILO you edit the first line of
> /etc/lilo.conf (may be /etc/lilo.conf.anaconda in 7.3) to tell it where
> the bootloader should be installed. Save the file and run 'lilo -v -v'

Wow.  I curse Scott for not looking at this.  Curse Scott.  :-)  Praise 
to Warren and his Wise Friend.  I have Learned.
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