On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 08:33:29PM +0100, Milos Negovanovic wrote: > Hi all, > > Ive just performed squeeze install on a server with 2 drives > configured in RAID1. I followed closely installer messages and I don't > remember seeing GRUB being installed on /dev/sdb. For a split second > there was a message saying something about GRUB being installed on > /dev/sda ... and thats it. Basically if / is on software raid (linux md > raid) does installer install GRUB on all available hard drives? Do I > need to install GRUB manually on /dev/sdb? Idea is that if one of the > drives fail I can still use this system, which includes being able to > boot from either of the drives. Just dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc and select all the drives to boot from. Note if you used gpt partition tables, grub will need a tiny boot partition to install itself on (bios_grub). Example from parted: Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 1.00MiB 5.00MiB 4.00MiB grub bios_grub 2 5.00MiB 953867MiB 953862MiB btrfs btrfsraid 3 953867MiB 1907728MiB 953861MiB mdraid raid All the main Linux partitions are then on LVM on the mdraid RAID1 device. The other disc is partitioned identically. Annoyingly, the installer partitioner is not currently intelligent enough to set up the bios_grub partition by default, so you have to do it my hand in parted. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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