[ale] Software RAID1 rebuild after HDD failure (How to do?)

[Ryan Fish]

How would I go about installing GRUB on the second drive?  Can I just use an
rpm and somehow force it to install on hdc3 (where / lives)?

Thank you.
-Ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
To: ale at ale.org
Christopher Fowler
Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 6:57 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Software RAID1 rebuild after HDD failure (How to do?)

On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 02:57 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> An alternative way to test is to d/l VMWare server (it's free, but
> still 
> pre-release status) and install it on your desktop/laptop.  Then
> connect 
> to it from the same system (or another one) and create a virtual 
> machine.  Edit the virtual machine's settings to give it two drives, 
> then install CentOS or whatever distro is at the remote site.  Set it
> up 
> with full raid working, then shutdown the virtual machine and remove
> one 
> of the drives from the config.  Then add a new (third) drive, and use
> it 
> as instead of the removed one.  Assuming that you have the time to do 
> this. ;-)

I did this on a real test machine and then had to lookup commands to
make it work again.  One thing I did learn was to make sure I installed
grub onto both drives.  If the first one failed then the 2nd would not
boot unless grub was installed.

My biggest problem was rebuild.  If the machine rebooted many times
during a rebuild eventually all data was lost and a reformat was
required.



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