Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 12:06:11 -0200
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Jack Schneider wrote:
> > > >> You might want to try configuring grub and fstab to use UUID's
> > > >> instead of /dev/mdX. That removes the possibility that the
> > > >> kernel will change the mdX designations.
> > > >>
> > > >> Use blkid to find out the UUID's of your partitions.
>
> Whatever you do, NEVER use the UUIDs of partitions, use the UUID of
> the md devices. The worst failure scenario involving MD and idiotic
> tools is for a tool to cause a component device to be mounted instead
> of the MD array.
>
> This is one of the reasons why the new MD formats that offset the data
> inside the component devices exists.
>
Thanks, Henrique!!! That gives me a new place to start this AM...
Jack
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