Re: Installer - add BIOS boot partition?

[Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz>]

On 12/01/19 3:44 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 02:31:22PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote:
>> That worked great, thanks. Though it seems the '1.0MB' free before my
>> first partition wasn't big enough (or not aligned right?) so I had to
>> start from scratch.
>>
>> Incidentally, could/should I have made that RAID1? I created bios
>> partitions on both my disks, and have grub-install-ed to both. The
>> partitions do seem to be identical.
> 
> It might be possible to make it raid 1, although if you tell grub
> to install to both of them, that should work fine, and in fact you
> probably need that anyhow to get the bootstrap code into the MBR sector
> on both disks.  I think you are fine the way it is.  That partition is
> essentially an extension of the MBR sector for grub code so being per
> disk makes sense.

Ok - as long as I remember to install to both. There's no option to
install to both in one invocation, is there? Or a config file that
records which drives are/might be used for booting?

> And yes the partition tool won't let you create partitions that don't
> start on a 1MB alignment, so even though there was enough room for a
> partition there (of almost 1MB) it won't let you.  Not that loosing 1MB
> is a big deal.

1MB out of my 4TB disk? Come on, this is my money we're talking about :-)

>  Having to start over probably wasn't that big a deal
> either in this case.

True. I'd already missed the deadline for one backup run, and didn't
miss the next (this is the kvm host that my backup server runs on).

Thanks for all your help.

Cheers,
Richard