Lilo-to-grub with software raid-1

[Troels Arvin]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 11:23:39 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote (subject "Re:
Announcing Fedora Core 4 Test 2"):

>  In today's edition of the Herbertville Chronicle, read all about
> the
>  second test release of Fedora Core 4! 
[...]

The release notes seem to indicate that lilo is gone in Fedora Core 4. It
would be nice if the release notes described how people using root-fs on
software raid-1 can make sure that grub writes the boot-loader to both
disks.

-- 
Greetings from Troels Arvin, Copenhagen, Denmark

[Jef Spaleta]

On Apr 12, 2005 3:07 AM, Troels Arvin <troels(a)arvin.dk&gt; wrote:
>  The release notes seem to indicate that lilo is gone in Fedora Core
> 4. It
>  would be nice if the release notes described how people using root-fs on
>  software raid-1 can make sure that grub writes the boot-loader to both
>  disks. 
I'm not sure this is the best place to make such a request and be sure
its going to be seen by the "right" people.

Once you find someone who can write up a reasonable first draft of
those instructions is to contact the fedora-docs-list or file a
bugzilla entry with the instruction text.  The release notes process
creation is evolving, read:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraDocs_2fRelNotes_2fRelNotesProcess

-jef

[Chuck Anderson]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 09:07:50AM +0200, Troels Arvin wrote:
>  On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 11:23:39 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote (subject
> "Re:
>  Announcing Fedora Core 4 Test 2"):
>  
>  > In today's edition of the Herbertville Chronicle, read all about the
>  > second test release of Fedora Core 4!
>  [...]
>  
>  The release notes seem to indicate that lilo is gone in Fedora Core 4. It
>  would be nice if the release notes described how people using root-fs on
>  software raid-1 can make sure that grub writes the boot-loader to both
>  disks. 
I think the FC4 installer does make sure grub writes to both disks of 
sw raid-1.

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Troels Arvin <troels(a)arvin.dk&gt; said:
>  The release notes seem to indicate that lilo is gone in Fedora Core
> 4. It
>  would be nice if the release notes described how people using root-fs on
>  software raid-1 can make sure that grub writes the boot-loader to both
>  disks. 
I believe that is handled by anaconda automatically now; see this
changelog entry:

* Sun Feb 20 2005 Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com&gt; - 10.2.0.21-1
- get rid of lilo
- make grub work with raid1 /boot and /root

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net&gt;
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

[Peter Jones]

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 09:07 +0200, Troels Arvin wrote:
>  On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 11:23:39 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote (subject
> "Re:
>  Announcing Fedora Core 4 Test 2"):
>  
>  > In today's edition of the Herbertville Chronicle, read all about the
>  > second test release of Fedora Core 4!
>  [...]
>  
>  The release notes seem to indicate that lilo is gone in Fedora Core 4. It
>  would be nice if the release notes described how people using root-fs on
>  software raid-1 can make sure that grub writes the boot-loader to both
>  disks. 
In theory, "upgrade" should do that. 

In practice, I just started making sure upgrade would work for anything
like that yesterday, so it might be a little bumpy at first.
-- 
        Peter