On Lu, 23 ian 12, 15:55:04, lee wrote: > Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> writes: > > > On Jo, 19 ian 12, 01:20:18, lee wrote: > >> > >> Well, this laptop has two harddrives out of which I´ll make a > >> software RAID-1. Last time I checked, installing and booting from a > >> RAID was only possible by using LVM (and md), and the d/i of Testing > >> was able to do that pretty easily for me. > > > > No, you don't need LVM and even the grub in squeeze can boot from md > > devices. > > Apparently it can´t boot from RAID on this laptop. I have tried a lot > of different configurations, i. e. with LVM and without and with > different partition layouts. Either grub couldn´t be installed or when > booting the system from the harddisk after the installation finished, > grub got stuck at the "Welcome to grub" message before showing the boot > menu.
Other than "make sure you are using grub2" (package grub-pc) I can give you no advise. The only system with RAID I do maintain was installed via debootstrap, not D-I. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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