Not absolutely sure but I don't think one can put boot grub out of software raid.
Ralph Bacolod ,MT http://blog.devsphoto.com twitter: @rafiks -----Original Message----- From: Ron <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:58:53 To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List<[email protected]> Reply-To: "Philippine Linux Users' Group \(PLUG\) Technical Discussion List" <[email protected]> Subject: [plug] ubuntu 10.04 installation Hi All, This has been driving me nuts for 2 days now: I got a new h/w with 6 SATA drives, am installing it to use software raid: /boot -- /dev/md0 -- raid 1 swap -- /dev/md1 -- raid 0 / -- /dev/md2 -- raid 6 /dev/md0 consists of sda1 and sdb1 /dev/md1 consists of sdc1,sdd1,sde1 and sdf1 /dev/md2 consists of sda2,sdb2,sdc2,sdd2,sde2,sfe2 on the part where it install grub, i get an error that installing grub on /dev/sda/ and /dev/sdb fails, can't figure out that part. tried loading a knoppix image and try to install grub manually but knoppix seems cant detect the software raid as fdisk only see a partition that is GPT. haven't tried live CD that's the next thing i will try. but has anyone experience the same thing before? any help would be truly appreciated. Regards, Ron _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
