On 24.09.2010 23:23, Carlos Mennens wrote: > 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? > Dunno, I just ignored it and put grub2 on it and it just worked without the --metadata flag. No tinkering or anything required. In fact, grub2 just worked like magic with default configs. So: "works for me" -- Sven-Hendrik
