My /boot partition is on /dev/md0

my grub.conf has the following line:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.EL ro root=/dev/md1 rhgb quiet

My kernel is in /boot which is mounted on /dev/md0. Why does my grub.conf say /dev/md1? They system boots but this is confusing..

Another strange thing I noticed is when setup (hd0) is run from the grub prompt after root (hd0,0) I get:

Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no

If I cd /boot/grub I can see the stage1 file there.
From grub I do a:

find (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage1 and I get file not found.

Again, system boots.

Any thoughts? I'm trying to install the MBR on both hda and hdb so my system will boot if a disk fails but I want to figure this out before I depend on the MBR install with stage1 missing..


Thanks

The root "/boot" is specified above, it's probably hd(0,0) if it's md0 where your grub is, so it refers /vmlinuz-... where / actually means hd(0,0). Your boot partition lies in md0 as you said, but the actual system root partition is probably in md1 (the next partition), so it points the filesystem root there, if I figured this out right. /boot is just mounted into the filesystem root, but it doesn't necessarily reside on the same partition.

Interesting.. so correct me if I'm not understanding this correctly.

My / partition is /dev/md1 (which it is)
My /boot partition is /dev/md0

Since /boot is mounted under / grub needs to reference the partition for / (/dev/md1) to traverse the directory down to /boot which is /dev/md0.

Is that how it works?
That would mean the "root=/dev/xxxx" would always be the device of the root partition regardless of where the kernel was mounted (i.e. /boot).

Also - any thoughts on the stage1 not found issue?