Re: grub2/grub-pc install not possible on mdadm

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Hi Stefan,

Am Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:44:20 +0100
Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb:
> 
> > Looking at your original mail again - you are running a raid with
> > metadata 1.2, which means your BIOS will not know how to read the disks
> > as a raid device.
> > You should be able to install grub into the MBR of /dev/sda or /dev/sdb.
> > I believe that is possible with 1.2 metadata. 1.1 was totally broken for
> > this if I remember correctly.
> 
> Correct that's why i've also tried to install it on sda / sdb but then
> grub complains about not finding any partition table.

do you have a partition table inside the raid?
This will not work I expect. The kernel might find the partition table but
grub?

Or do you have no partition table at all and a filesystem directly on the
raid device?

Lars
-- 
                            Informationstechnologie
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Jägerstrasse 22-23                     10117 Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 20370-352           http://www.bbaw.de
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html


[Index of Archives]     [Linux RAID Wiki]     [ATA RAID]     [Linux SCSI Target Infrastructure]     [Linux Block]     [Linux IDE]     [Linux SCSI]     [Linux Hams]     [Device Mapper]     [Device Mapper Cryptographics]     [Kernel]     [Linux Admin]     [Linux Net]     [GFS]     [RPM]     [git]     [Yosemite Forum]


  Powered by Linux