follow-up on GRUB woes

[John]

James Gregory wrote:

>>I did it for the purposes of doing it, so the config came up a bit 
>>strange: mirror on hda{1,2} and hdc{1,2}.
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>>Grub had to be installed on the underlying disks, not on md{0,1}.
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>Right. md{0,1} won't exist at boot time.
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A novice like me could expect that writing to md0 gets all the 
underlying disks.

I think the trap is the MBR.