On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Gary Dale<garydale@rogers.com> wrote:
Sorry but this isn't difficult (although it may affect top-posters more than
bottom posters :) ). The Debian installer allows you to create a whole-disk
RAID array then partition it. You have a single RAID 5 array with some
number of primary partitions (up to 4 - I use 2, / and /home, with swap
files rather than swap partitions but traditionalists may prefer a swap
partition). Grub treats the array like a disk drive and has no problem
booting from it.
One issue you may have with Squeeze (I recommend Wheezy instead) is that the
UUID for / in grub.cfg may be wrong. Simply replace it with the correct one
(probably for /dev/md0p1) and everything will work. You will have to repeat
this anytime update-grub is run. This is not an issue with Wheezy.
We must be using very different d-is!
I've never seen an option to create a partitioned mdraid array for
either squeeze or wheezy.
Furthermore, grub2 in squeeze cannot recognize partitioned mdraid
arrays; squeeze has grub2 version 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 and
partitioned mdraid support was introduced in version 1.99-1.