Re: Grub2 MBR issues

2012-05-03 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 2 May 2012 16:46:25 -0400, JR (Jeffrey) wrote: > > >> My concern is if I were to loose /dev/sda I want to be able to boot via > >> /dev/sdb. > > > > yes, because /dev/sda does NOt have GRUB, /dev/sdb has > > > >> Or am I reading the output from file wrong and its actually /dev/sda > >> th

Re: Grub2 MBR issues

2012-05-02 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: > >>> My concern is if I were to loose /dev/sda I want to be able to boot via >>> /dev/sdb. >> >> yes, because /dev/sda does NOt have GRUB, /dev/sdb has >> >>> Or am I reading the output from file wrong and its actually /dev/sda >>> that >>> does

Re: Grub2 MBR issues

2012-05-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/02/2012 01:46 PM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: ok, misinformation from this post? http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2012-February/414336.html Now the question is who is right? I'm starting to believe the post I quoted above is incorrect. It's possible that it was correct when writte

Re: Grub2 MBR issues

2012-05-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.05.2012 22:46, schrieb Jeffrey Ross: > >>> My concern is if I were to loose /dev/sda I want to be able to boot via >>> /dev/sdb. >> >> yes, because /dev/sda does NOt have GRUB, /dev/sdb has >> >>> Or am I reading the output from file wrong and its actually /dev/sda >>> that >>> doesn't hav

Re: Grub2 MBR issues

2012-05-02 Thread Jeffrey Ross
>> My concern is if I were to loose /dev/sda I want to be able to boot via >> /dev/sdb. > > yes, because /dev/sda does NOt have GRUB, /dev/sdb has > >> Or am I reading the output from file wrong and its actually /dev/sda >> that >> doesn't have grub2 installed on it? > > you see "GRand Unified Boo

Re: Grub2 MBR issues

2012-05-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.05.2012 22:20, schrieb Jeffrey Ross: > I have a F16 system (which had been upgraded from F15) that is running > RAID-1 for all volumes. I have notice that GRUB2 is only on /dev/sda but > not on /dev/sdb where do you read this? > [root@wisdom boot]# file - < /dev/sda > /dev/stdin: x86 boo

Re: Grub2 MBR issues

2012-05-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/02/2012 01:20 PM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: [root@wisdom boot]# file -< /dev/sdb /dev/stdin: x86 boot sector; GRand Unified Bootloader, stage1 version 0x3, boot drive 0x80, 1st sector stage2 0x842a9; partition 1: ID=0xfd, active, starthead 32, startsector 2048, 785137 sectors; partition 2: ID=0x

Grub2 MBR issues

2012-05-02 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I have a F16 system (which had been upgraded from F15) that is running RAID-1 for all volumes. I have notice that GRUB2 is only on /dev/sda but not on /dev/sdb [root@wisdom boot]# file - < /dev/sda /dev/stdin: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0xfd, active, starthead 32, startsector 2048, 785137 s