"tv.deb...@googlemail.com" <tv.deb...@googlemail.com> writes:
> Hi, > > 06/06/2011 20:16, Felix Natter wrote: >> Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> hello Tom, >> >>> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Felix Natter >>> <felix.nat...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I am trying to install squeeze (from live DVD[1]) with a RAID1 root >>>> filesystem (/dev/md0). >>>> >>>> There is an error when running grub-install: >>>> Jun 5 18:38:18 grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --no-floppy >>>> --force "/dev/sda"' failed. >>>> >>>> I tried to run it manually: >>>> chroot /target grub-install --no-floppy --force /dev/sda >>>> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: no such disk. >>>> Auto-detection of a filesystem of /dev/md0 failed. >>>> Please report this together with the output of "/usr/sbin/grub-probe >>>> --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --target=fs -v /boot/grub" to >>>> <bug-g...@gnu.org> >>> >>> Does "/target/etc/mtab" exist and is it correct? >> >> Seems like it's correct: >> ---------------------- >> /dev/md0 / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0 >> tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755 0 0 >> none /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0 >> ---------------------- >> >>> >>>> chroot /target /usr/sbin/grub-probe --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map >>>> --target=fs -v /boot/grub >>>> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 488397168. >>>> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 488397168. >>>> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to /dev. >>>> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to mapper. >>>> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: opening md0. >>>> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: no such disk. >>> >>> On both Debian and Ubuntu, I used to be able to run "dpkg-reconfigure >>> grub-pc", choose md0, sda, and sdb, and grub would be installed on all >> >> This results in the same error. >> >>> three. For a while now (I can't remember for how long), installing to >>> md0's failed. >> >> Is this a known bug or unsupported? > > There have been a longstanding non-reliability of grub-pc with /boot on > raid1, have a look at the bug tracker and you'll find several reports > revolving around /boot or / on raid1 (#624232 is mine). Problem is > solved with the recent "mduuid" patch that went into grub-pc 1.99 (is in > Wheezy/Testing). But I don't know if your problem is related to this or > due to the metadata weirdness (see below). Thanks for the suggestion, it all works fine with today's testing (net) installer! Best Regards! -- Felix Natter -- 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/8762og86on....@smail.inf.fh-brs.de
