On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 05:57:09PM -0500, David Gaudine wrote: > On 10-12-10 3:50 PM, Reiner Buehl wrote: >> On 10.12.2010 21:15, David Gaudine wrote: >>> 2) I put the SWAP partition on RAID. The first guide doesn't use >>> RAID for swap. The author emailed me his comments about the pros and >>> cons, and I think I want it on RAID for peace of mind. It shouldn't >>> really matter since I have much more RAM than I need. Is there any >>> reason I might regret putting SWAP on RAID? "cat /proc/mdstat" >>> reports the MD1 (the swap device) as "auto-read-only". >> >> In Linux, all raid arrays stay in "auto-read-only" mode until they are >> access the first time after each reboot, so this seems to imply that >> your system has not yet initialized the swap. Did you add your swap to >> /etc/fstab and mark it as swap there? > > Usually the installer does that for me. I can't say if that happened > this time, because I played with Grub and now I can't boot. > Burn yourself a copy of supergrubdisk. It can be a lifesaver in these situations.
>>> 4) The first guide shows how to install Grub on both disks. After >>> that's done once, do I have to do it again whenever there's a new >>> kernel package? Or in any other situation that I have to watch out >>> for? >> >> You only need to install grub on both disks once. After that, there is >> no need to repeat that again unless you upgrade grub itself. > > Here I have a big problem. The guide said to run grub and do > root(hd0,0) > setup(hd0) > and repeat for the other disk. I don't have an executable file "grub". > grub-pc is installed. After a bit of reading I tried this: > Are you trying it as root? -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101211011148.gb16...@aurora.owens.net
