2010/10/19 Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au>: > Nuno Magalhães wrote: >> >> I had a similar problem recently where some package failed to install, >> which caused grub to fail as well. Switching to a console and issuing >> aptitude install grub did the trick. > > I had a different problem, not sure it should have been. > > Installed Debian from 5.06 netinst using ssh. > > Setup RAID6 over 6 drives (single partition on each drive), lvm2 of that and > there was no way I could install grub [lilo failed, but I didn't want lilo > anyway]. > > Dropped back to allocating 2 partitions per drive and using the smaller one > as a 6 way RAID1 mirror for /boot -- then RAID6 for the large partitions > with lvm2 covering root and other areas; then I could install grub.
"/boot" can only be on raid1 because the bootloaders need to access before mdadm assembles the array and, with raid1, the bootloaders can access one of the submirrors. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikgo1dmfxja=nslj1cmxbwcer4c1nwqg7xm-...@mail.gmail.com
