Bug#681681: installation-reports: grub-install doesn't install grub to all drives in RAID5 array during install
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
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* What led up to the situation?
I recently rebuilt my former home server as a test desktop machine using
3 x 500G SATA drives I
had lying around. This required me to install a cheap PCI SATA
controller to get enough SATA ports
to handle the drives. The DVD writer is an IDE unit.
I'd heard that it was possible to boot from a RAID5 array and I wanted
to try that out. After
a couple of days of trying to get the system to boot after the install,
I realized the problem was
that GRUB wasn't installed on all the drives and the system was trying
to boot from a drive without
GRUB on it.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Using the NetInst CD to boot into rescue mode allowed me open a shell in
the /dev/md/0
environment and grub-install to the other two drives.
* What was the outcome of this action?
As expected, with grub installed on all three drives, I could boot into
a RAID5 array.
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-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD
Image version: current NetInst for Wheezy as of July 14
Date: <Date and time of the install>
Machine: old ASUS Athlon 64 motherboard with an add-in SATA controller
to give enough SATA ports for a RAID5 array
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [ ]
Detect network card: [ ]
Configure network: [ ]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Clock/timezone setup: [ ]
User/password setup: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install tasks: [ ]
Install boot loader: [X]
Overall install: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
I note that the installer doesn't give you the option to partition a
RAID array, even
though this is a legal and perfectly reasonable thing to do. Without
this capability
I have to set up the RAID array before starting the installer if I want
a partitioned
array.
Also, I'm submitting this report from my regular workstation, so I've
removed
the non-relevant parts of the report that would normally be below.
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