On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Gary Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/03/13 04:49 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Gary Dale<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Sorry but this isn't difficult (although it may affect top-posters more >>> than >>> bottom posters :) ). The Debian installer allows you to create a >>> whole-disk >>> RAID array then partition it. You have a single RAID 5 array with some >>> number of primary partitions (up to 4 - I use 2, / and /home, with swap >>> files rather than swap partitions but traditionalists may prefer a swap >>> partition). Grub treats the array like a disk drive and has no problem >>> booting from it. >>> >>> One issue you may have with Squeeze (I recommend Wheezy instead) is that >>> the >>> UUID for / in grub.cfg may be wrong. Simply replace it with the correct >>> one >>> (probably for /dev/md0p1) and everything will work. You will have to >>> repeat >>> this anytime update-grub is run. This is not an issue with Wheezy. >> >> We must be using very different d-is! >> >> I've never seen an option to create a partitioned mdraid array for >> either squeeze or wheezy. >> >> Furthermore, grub2 in squeeze cannot recognize partitioned mdraid >> arrays; squeeze has grub2 version 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 and >> partitioned mdraid support was introduced in version 1.99-1. > > You need the advanced install I believe. I have a Squeeze system booting > into RAID 5 but, as I said, Wheezy is better. The Squeeze system has a > problem with the UUIDs needing to be fixed after update-grub is run.
I've just created a wheezy VM and couldn't find any partitioned mdraid option. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=Sz0Q1nL-MLgkHpHGRfT=5w5xeqrmqvrhoaksa-cvj4...@mail.gmail.com
