Grub issue / resolution that worked for me

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 17:33:42 +1200,
  Daniel Lawson <daniel at wand.net.nz> wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> 
> >I am running FC2 with software raid 1 (2 disks, 3 partions each).
> >
> >I had been only able to boot off of hde. In order to feel that
> >I would be able to boot off hdg if hde went south I decided to try
> >to fix this. But it turned out to be a lot harder than I expected.
> > 
> >
> 
> As well as the steps you suggested, read the following:
> 
> http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2003-July/014331.html
> 
> The one thing it does differently is tell grub that (hd0) is actually 
> your second disk, before you install grub to the second disk.
> 
> This fixes the problem where if you remove /dev/hde, /dev/hdg actually 
> becomes (hd0) - you've got it set up as being (hd1). The extra steps 
> contained in that url tell grub to believe that (hd0) is actually 
> pointing at /dev/hdg

Yeah, I had already run accross that page, but because the setup command
didn't work and I got things to without testing pulling a disk, I figured
that the page was outdated. Thanks for straightening me out. I will redo
the setup for hdg using the device command first.