On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:28:11AM -0800, Piotr Jablonski wrote:
> It's rather unfinished feature rather tahna a bug but nevertheles.
> When installing (etch, i don't know if bug occurs in lenny) using
> software RAID1 (or any other? [5,6,10]) installer only installs
> grub in the MBR of one of HDD's. I know i can manually do the second
> install later and add to grub propper lines, but i think it should be done
> automatically (while updating kernel/modules problem with automatically
> updating menu.lst also emerges). The thing is when one of hdd dies
> system should start up. Its the philosophy of RAID1, and i know that
> i can do a hardware RAID1, but not on low-end servers, in small company
> when price is the main factor.
Indeed. This missing feature has already been reported (#391489) but no
one ever proposed an implementation.
In the meantime, it is possible using preseeding to install GRUB on
multiple disks at once, with something like:
d-i grub-installer/bootdev string (hd0,0) (hd1,0) (hd2,0)
Cheers,
--
Jérémy Bobbio .''`.
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