Installing Grub onto RAID-1 Partition with ReiserFS

Joe Haynes of Terra Firma Software Solutions, Inc.

1  Synopsis

I had a devil of a time getting grub (GRand Unified Boot loader) to install on two IDE drives setup in a RAID-1 configuration with ReisferFS. These are the steps I used to finish that setup on a Gentoo system.  

2  The Steps

  1. Edit grub.conf (this is usually under /boot/grub/) and add your two partitions (referenced below).
  2. Run grub manually (type grub at the command prompt)
  3. At the grub prompt (i.e. 'grub>') issue the command find /grub/stage2 and you should see the two raid partitions appear
    (hd0,1)
    (hd1,1)
  4. Type root (hd0,1) and you should see this:
    Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type Oxfd
  5. Type setup (hd0) You should see something similar to this appear:
    Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
    Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
    Checking if "embed /boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 26 sectors are embedded. succeeded
    Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+26 p (hd0,1)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
    Done.
  6. (Running the commands for the second drive) Type root (hd1,1) and you should see this:
    Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type Oxfd
  7. Type setup (hd1) You should see something similar to this appear:
    Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
    Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
    Checking if "embed /boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5 (hd1)"... 26 sectors are embedded. succeeded
    Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd1) (hd1)1+26 p (hd1,1)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
    Done.
  8. That's it! Now all you have to do is exit out of grub by issuing the quit command.


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On 26 Jan 2005, 21:51.