Package: grub-common Version: 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 Severity: important
Hello everyone, after one of my servers went down with a broken HD, it didn't want to reboot anymore. Reason: the server was on RAID1 with sda an sdb, and the broken HD was sda. Subsequently I made numerous squeeze test-installations with a RAID 1 on two disks to find out how a system must be installed so that it boots no matter if sda or sdb fails. As a result I found no way how this could be done. On the german debian mailing list one answer was I should use grub-legacy. Indeed, with this one installed onto sda and sdb, the system boots after removing sda. The whole thread (in german) can be found here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/2012/07/msg00338.html What I expect is that the system boots when grub is installed onto sda and sdb (i.e.: dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc, and check sda and sdb in the dialogue), and sda fails (i.e.: is removed from the system). Of course grub should also boot when sdb fails, but this works ;) Thanks for reading. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages grub-common depends on: ii base-files 6.0squeeze5 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii dpkg 1.15.8.12 Debian package management system ii gettext-base 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-6 Manage installed documentation in ii libc6 2.11.3-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.48-5 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-2.1+squeeze4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime Versions of packages grub-common recommends: ii os-prober 1.42 utility to detect other OSes on a Versions of packages grub-common suggests: pn grub-emu <none> (no description available) pn multiboot-doc <none> (no description available) pn xorriso <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org