28 Apr
2015
28 Apr
'15
1:19 a.m.
"Noah O'Donoghue" <noah.odonoghue@gmail.com> writes:
How does extlinux solve the problem? It just seems like another bootloader to me.
Grub already has support for RAID, /boot on RAID, /boot on encrypted/raided/LVM...
extlinux doesn't have a devices.map. IOW if the first disk dies, the second one doesn't load the MBR then go "oh shit, I can't find the stage 1.5 on the second disk". Also the MBR is completely static, so when grub helpfully installs to the MBR of your USB installer instead of the actual hard disk you told it to use, you can just cat mbr.bin >/dev/sda to fix it.