Re: Problems installing grub/lilo with RAID1 on /
Hi,
06/06/2011 20:16, Felix Natter wrote:
> Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> writes:
>
> hello Tom,
>
>> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Felix Natter
>> <felix.natter@smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I am trying to install squeeze (from live DVD[1]) with a RAID1 root
>>> filesystem (/dev/md0).
>>>
>>> There is an error when running grub-install:
>>> Jun 5 18:38:18 grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --no-floppy --force "/dev/sda"' failed.
>>>
>>> I tried to run it manually:
>>> chroot /target grub-install --no-floppy --force /dev/sda
>>> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: no such disk.
>>> Auto-detection of a filesystem of /dev/md0 failed.
>>> Please report this together with the output of "/usr/sbin/grub-probe --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --target=fs -v /boot/grub" to <bug-grub@gnu.org>
>>
>> Does "/target/etc/mtab" exist and is it correct?
>
> Seems like it's correct:
> ----------------------
> /dev/md0 / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
> tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755 0 0
> none /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
> ----------------------
>
>>
>>> chroot /target /usr/sbin/grub-probe --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --target=fs -v /boot/grub
>>> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 488397168.
>>> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 488397168.
>>> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to /dev.
>>> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to mapper.
>>> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: opening md0.
>>> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: no such disk.
>>
>> On both Debian and Ubuntu, I used to be able to run "dpkg-reconfigure
>> grub-pc", choose md0, sda, and sdb, and grub would be installed on all
>
> This results in the same error.
>
>> three. For a while now (I can't remember for how long), installing to
>> md0's failed.
>
> Is this a known bug or unsupported?
There have been a longstanding non-reliability of grub-pc with /boot on
raid1, have a look at the bug tracker and you'll find several reports
revolving around /boot or / on raid1 (#624232 is mine). Problem is
solved with the recent "mduuid" patch that went into grub-pc 1.99 (is in
Wheezy/Testing). But I don't know if your problem is related to this or
due to the metadata weirdness (see below).
>
>>
>>> When trying to install lilo (with the debian-installler), I get
>>> "inconsistent raid information" (but the RAID1 (2x 208G) was created
>>> with debian-installer):
>>>
>>> Jun 5 19:22:00 in-target: Running lilo...
>>> Jun 5 19:22:01 in-target: Fatal:
>>> Jun 5 19:22:01 in-target: Inconsistent Raid version information on /dev/md0 (RV=0.90 GAI=1.2)
>>
>> What do RV and GAI mean? I've googled both and not foudn anything to
>> help. "0.90" and "1.2" are mdraid metadata versions. Were these disks
>> previously in another array and do you now have two types of metada on
>> them?
>
> No, I did not change any hardware config before reinstalling with
> squeeze. I also had a RAID1 root fs with those two disks before.
>
> I think it is justified to file a bug against debian-installer.
>
> Thanks,
Since the different metadata were not stored at the place, it may be
possible that your disks retained the old metadata (0.90) together with
the new ones (1.2). Did you "mdadm --zero-superblock" your volumes et
some point before doing a new install ? What does "mdadm --examine"
$(raid_member) tell you ?
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