Re: Problem booting from /boot on raid1

[Tom H]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Emil Micek <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I recently converted my single-drive configuration to raid1 soft array using
> two 1.5TB disks for my / (root) and /home partitions and i have problems
> booting from it with grub.
>
> /boot directory is not separate. It resides on my root partition which is
> /dev/md0 with ext3 filesystem.
>
> Grub version is 1.98. Raid metadata version is 1.2.
>
> I had to manualy edit /boot/grub/device.map. I added md0 and md1 entries:
>
> (fd0)   /dev/fd0
> (hd0)   /dev/sda
> (hd1)   /dev/sdb
> (hd2)   /dev/sdc
> (md0)   /dev/md0
> (md1)   /dev/md1
>
<big snip>
>
> I'd be glad for any help. Could the problem be in version 1.2 metadata on my
> raid partition?

Debian (and I assume upstream) added support for 1.x metadata a week ago:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=94;bug=492897

Debian (and, again, I assume upstream) changed device.map to
"/dev/disk/by-id/..." recently.