From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O3plw-00016A-W5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:08:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A830E0AA2 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:08:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A279E0860 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:51:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (grunthos.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8E6C94CBAFD for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:51:50 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:51:43 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initramfs & RAID at boot time Message-ID: <20100419125143.50ef2176@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20100417230107.71b44573@digimed.co.uk> <20100418091647.43f1d63a@digimed.co.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5cvs48 (GTK+ 2.18.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/wbtxOa51aHfj66OHYMS2hnh"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: e13a41f3-a0ed-4d32-8e94-37d9720532d5 X-Archives-Hash: 8c8d6cfb6ceb5d7c62e403727b339085 --Sig_/wbtxOa51aHfj66OHYMS2hnh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:27:15 +0300, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote: > Well I've tried exactly that: I've aggregated two partitions in > RAID1, made the file system, then tried to install Grub on them (as in > run grub-setup or grub-install or grub and then from the shell the > setup)... And I didn't succeeded. I've tried the following: > * try to install Grub on the MD as it would have been a partition > -- failed (as expected as the MD device is not on a hard-drive); > * stopped the MD, and then tried to install grub on each partition > individually -- it worked to install, but from a reason I don't > remember right now it failed to boot; >=20 > So what intrigues me is how you've initialized the MBR, how you've > runned grub-setup? I don't use grub-setup, just run grub and do root (hd0,4) setup (hd0) quit and repeat for each disk. --=20 Neil Bothwick My friends went to alt.california, and all they brought me was this lousy sig. --Sig_/wbtxOa51aHfj66OHYMS2hnh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkvMQ9QACgkQum4al0N1GQPRnACffj2+DtkvhYwiJMOIGAAudL5s KYsAn3G6+hhQNuL9NPpBbUVKtveT2COV =zQ/V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/wbtxOa51aHfj66OHYMS2hnh--