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Re: Deb10 installer can't install grub



On 2021-03-02 at 09:20, Dave Sherohman wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 09:09:52AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> 
>> On 2021-03-02 at 09:01, Dave Sherohman wrote:

>>> RAID Device #1 is 1.9 TB, ext4fs, and set to mount on /
>>> RAID Device #2 is 2.0 GB, ESP, and bootable
>> 
>> So the EFI partitions themselves are also RAIDed? I wouldn't have
>> expected that to work.
> 
> That was my expectation as well, but Dan said it should work, so I went
> with it.

I didn't parse what he wrote that way. He said:

>>>> You'll want to create the following partitions on each,
>>>> identically:
>>>> 
>>>> 1 efi - type efi
>>>> 2 boot (or boot/root) - type MDADM volume
>>>> 3 root, if using separate boot - type MDADM volume
>>>> 4 swap - type MDADM volume
>>>> 
>>>> Then you go to the mdadm setup and create MDADM RAID1 devices
>>>> out of each pair of boot, root and swap.

Note that he specified to RAID the three listed MDADM partitions, but
did not mention the same for the EFI partition.

> Of course, I've also tried it with then not RAIDed and the results
> are identical, aside from the "canonoical path" error message in 
> syslog changing from /dev/md2 to /dev/nvme0n1p1.

Not terribly surprising, but it was worth a check.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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