Re: GPT + RAID + boot

2014-01-15 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Sven Hartge writes: PaulNM writes: Thank you both for your help -- your suggestions were exactly what I needed (I delayed responding until I was confident I had everything working). I'm puzzled as to why parted refers to these partition types as "flags" -- seeing that when using the program,

Re: GPT + RAID + boot

2014-01-08 Thread Sven Hartge
Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > My goal here is to be able to have a bootable, running system in the > event of a disk failure. I've been running two disks in a RAID-1 > configuration, with grub installed on both disks, for some time. My > /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf is essentially empty, as mdadm has been > s

Re: GPT + RAID + boot

2014-01-07 Thread PaulNM
On 01/07/2014 03:20 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: snip > > Booting with the bios_grub flag set, my raid array isn't assembled > properly: the partition with bios_grub set isn't added into the array > (fortunately, my other disk is good!). > > So: how can I go about setting up my new disk so I will

GPT + RAID + boot

2014-01-07 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
My goal here is to be able to have a bootable, running system in the event of a disk failure. I've been running two disks in a RAID-1 configuration, with grub installed on both disks, for some time. My /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf is essentially empty, as mdadm has been successfully finding my RAID part