Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [O/T] RAID help - now won't boot

2013-10-24 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 22 Oct 2013 08:10:18 Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > The 21/10/13, Mick wrote: > > I'm fast gravitating towards this option ... > > > > Although with metadata 0.90 I was able to progress with the installation > > (after I deselected the swap partitions) the grub-install script wanted > > to i

[gentoo-user] Re: [O/T] RAID help - now won't boot

2013-10-22 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 21/10/13, Mick wrote: > I'm fast gravitating towards this option ... > > Although with metadata 0.90 I was able to progress with the installation > (after I deselected the swap partitions) the grub-install script wanted to > install in /dev/md127p1 but it failed. I had to override the Ubun

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [O/T] RAID help - now won't boot

2013-10-21 Thread Mick
On Monday 21 Oct 2013 09:55:42 J. Roeleveld wrote: > Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > >I believe it would only be possible by installing the system on the > >degraded RAID, which will likely mean coming back to the original swap > >problem. > > That is why I suggested installing on a normal single disk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [O/T] RAID help - now won't boot

2013-10-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: >The 21/10/13, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >>Other option: >>1 install to single disk >> >>2 using sysresccd create a degraded raid1 using the 2nd drive >> >>3 copy the partitions and date from drive 1 to the degraded raid >device > >What is "copy the date"? A

[gentoo-user] Re: [O/T] RAID help - now won't boot

2013-10-21 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 21/10/13, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Ha! Yes, this made a difference, thanks! With metadata 0.90 I can see the > same partitions I set up on /dev/md0, also on /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. Sorry to come back late in this thread. As other contributors pointed out correctly, the problem was RAID metada

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [O/T] RAID help - now won't boot

2013-10-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
Mick wrote: >On Sunday 20 Oct 2013 15:31:12 jo...@antarean.org wrote: > >> I would suggest trying it by usong the older metadata format. >> Check the man pages, but I thinl it would be --metadata=0.90 (or >similar) >> during creation. That might put the metadata at the end, rather then >at >> the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [O/T] RAID help - now won't boot

2013-10-20 Thread Mick
On Sunday 20 Oct 2013 15:31:12 jo...@antarean.org wrote: > I would suggest trying it by usong the older metadata format. > Check the man pages, but I thinl it would be --metadata=0.90 (or similar) > during creation. That might put the metadata at the end, rather then at > the front. (Or it's the o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [O/T] RAID help - now won't boot

2013-10-20 Thread joost
Michael Hampicke wrote: >Am 20.10.2013 15:13, schrieb Mick: >> On Sunday 20 Oct 2013 13:57:34 Michael Hampicke wrote: >>> Am 20.10.2013 11:54, schrieb Mick: Any ideas why the Ubuntu installation won't boot? >>> >>> My guess would be, you cannot boot, because if you install grub in >>> /dev/md

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [O/T] RAID help - now won't boot

2013-10-20 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 20.10.2013 15:13, schrieb Mick: > On Sunday 20 Oct 2013 13:57:34 Michael Hampicke wrote: >> Am 20.10.2013 11:54, schrieb Mick: >>> Any ideas why the Ubuntu installation won't boot? >> >> My guess would be, you cannot boot, because if you install grub in >> /dev/md0. >> >> Upon boot the bios cann

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [O/T] RAID help - now won't boot

2013-10-20 Thread Mick
On Sunday 20 Oct 2013 13:57:34 Michael Hampicke wrote: > Am 20.10.2013 11:54, schrieb Mick: > > Any ideas why the Ubuntu installation won't boot? > > My guess would be, you cannot boot, because if you install grub in > /dev/md0. > > Upon boot the bios cannot find stage1 of the bootloader, which n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [O/T] RAID help - now won't boot

2013-10-20 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 20.10.2013 11:54, schrieb Mick: > Any ideas why the Ubuntu installation won't boot? > My guess would be, you cannot boot, because if you install grub in /dev/md0. Upon boot the bios cannot find stage1 of the bootloader, which normally lies in the MBR (which also houses the partition table).

[gentoo-user] Re: [O/T] RAID help - now won't boot

2013-10-20 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 16 Oct 2013 21:14:38 Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 08:10:40PM +0200, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:42:18PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > > mdadm --create --auto=mdp --verbose /dev/md_d0 --level=mirror > > > --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda /dev/sdb > > >