Booting order / SATA onboard / IDE card

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 02:32:00PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>Well given I just installed one today, it is rather trivial.  The debian
>installer certainly had no problem with it.
>
>You simply use software raid1.  Grub2 can boot that just fine.  When it
>asks where to install grub, tell it the MBR of both sda and sdb.
>Now either disk can be the boot drive.
>
>So in this case I set it up as:
>
>sda1 50GB + sdb1 50GB software raid1 for root (md0)
>sda2 200GB + sdb2 200GB software raid1 for lvm (md1)
>
>I then created a volume group and crated a logical volume for swap,
>/home and /data in the lvm.
>
>Grub2 got installed to sda and sdb and everything just works.
>
>Trivial really.
>
>I can put these drives in any other PC and it will still boot and still
>have raid.  I have done it this way for close to 10 years.  It has always
>been possible, although in the past you had to manually take care of
>installing the bootloader to both drives.

Any chance you could post this in a bit more detail as a HOW-TO?  I'd
love to do this on my next machine, and I daresay with a good document
to work from more would do the same.
-- 

yours,

William

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