On 06/03/13 02:37 PM, Adam Wolfe wrote:
On 03/06/2013 02:34 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 06/03/13 02:31 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 06/03/13 02:26 PM, Adam Wolfe wrote:
Ignore the advice from Adam Wolfe - it's nonsense. Use the Debian
installer (advanced mode) to create the RAID 5 array on drives
with just one partition (whole disk) as /dev/md0. Then partition
the RAID 5 array into / and /home. Install and reboot.
If you are using Wheezy this will work directly. If you are using
Squeeze then you may need to fix the UUID in /boot/grub.cfg.
I've done this successfully several times. It just works.
Eh. I tried that too. Grub failed to install.
If grub doesn't install, then install it. Boot using the Debian
installer as a rescue CD, start the RAID array, chroot to the /
partition and install grub.
BTW: I assume you are using Squeeze which is slightly more
problematic due to the older versions of software. Wheezy works fine
and I'd recommend it for anyone's desktop. It's probably good enough
for servers at this point, but if you're looking after servers, you
should be able to handle RAID on Squeeze. :)
Naw. I was using Wheezy. Partitioning the multiple drives did indeed
give me /dev/md0 but grub still wanted to install to /dev/sda, and
thus failed.
I'm not sure that is incorrect behaviour. Grub should install to the MBR
of the drive, which is not part of the RAID array. However, you should
also install grub onto each of the other drives in case one fails. Grub
could be installed onto /dev/md0 but I don't see it ever being executed
since the hardware wouldn't recognize the RAID array.
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