On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Carlos Mennens <carloswill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I noticed today I tried to create a new system using 'Software / Fake > RAID' on Arch with the 'mdadm' utility. I have not done this for a > year or so but realized that when I tried now on my new system, it > failed and then I tried it again and read between the lines... > > mdadm: Note: this array has metadata at the start and may not be > suitable as a boot device. If you plan to store '/boot' on this > device, please ensure that your boot-loader understands md/v1.x > metadata, or use --metadata=0.90 > > So then I created my array as follows: > > mdadm --create /dev/md0 --metadata=0.90 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 > /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2 > > Is there a way to get Grub to read / access the default metadata that > the 'mdadm' utility uses? I asked this one month ago... nobody has encountered this or has any info?