Re: grub fails to boot, prints only a single dot

[Alex Regan]

Hi,

> > Okay, so I can do this for each of the two partitions, then run
> > grub2-install on both drives, correct?
>
> Yes. I would reduce existing md0 first and install on drive removed
> from it leaving md0 intact. It makes it easy to rebuild it.

So --remove one of the two devices?

> > This way, if the first drive fails, I can configure the BIOS to boot
> > using the second drive, correct?
>
> More or less. You would need to reconfigure BIOS even with MD RAID in
> place. The only problem would be /boot in /etc/fstab, but I'm not sure
> if /boot even needs to be mounted for normal operation.

Ugh. I didn't expect that. So does it make sense to even have /boot on 
RAID1?

I thought the BIOS would detect the failed disk then move to the next 
one and retry?

Really appreciate you going through this with me.

Thanks,
Alex


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