Package: grub Severity: normal
Hi. This might be a wishlist item since I don't know what the official status is on raid5 support. At the very least this is an FYI to other users. I wanted to test out the worthiness of raid5 support with grub since I had heard that it had been added awhile back. I tested with three 80GB SATA disks on the current netinst testing installer image as of this date. FYI, grub-installer was run against /dev/sd[a-c] and /dev/md0, just to be sure. raid5 booting works great under normal conditions. However, when any one of the three disks is removed, the system no longer boots. I did test the removal of all three induvidually. Upon re-insertion of all three disks, the system boots normally. Grub loads it's boot loader and then fails with "Error: file not found." and gives a "grub recovery>" or similar prompt. This would render a system unbootable, should any one of the drives fail and perhaps it was not noticed by the sysadmin or a failure occurs during normal cold-boot maintenance. I don't know what the technical challenges are, but hopefully this can be fixed some day. Being able to boot from a raid5 mdadm array is really really cool. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
