Re: booting from a raid1

[Tom H]

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 8:50 AM, lee <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 12:22:28PM +0200, Emil Micek wrote:
>> On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, lee wrote:
>> >
>> >I'm trying to figure out how to boot from a RAID1 created with mdadm
>> >on Debian testing amd64.
>> >
>> >md0 : active raid1 sdd1[0] sdf1[1]
>> >     488384400 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
>> >
>>
>> As far as i know grub2 can't boot from raid arrays with version 1.2
>> metadata superblock. At least your /boot partition must reside on
>> RAID with version 0.9 superblock.
>
> Ok, I'll have to make a boot partition on another device then until
> grub supports current superblock formats.

sid supports 1.x:

 grub2  (1.98+20100720-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New Bazaar snapshot.
     - Link to Info documentation on changes from GRUB Legacy in README
       (closes: #502623).
     - Add support for mdadm metadata formats 1.x (closes: #492897).

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 -- Colin Watson <address@hidden>  Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:11:14 +0100