sorry to bother you again. can you please give or guide me from where i can find instruction for installation grub on both drives.
Thank you? On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan <sir...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:09:53 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> >> (please, keep a bottom posting style, it reads better) >> >>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> (...) >> >>>> My guess is that the problem here is booting from the raid volume. >> >>> Thanks, i found out the problem but still i am confused actually i have >>> disk 1 and disk 2 with same specs like they both are 320 GB and same >>> made. here is my partition flow (because i had tried installation so >>> many times so i change the partition structure) >>> >>> 1. /Boot 1GB (Boot on and on RAID /dev/md0) >>> 2. SWAP 4 GB (RAID /dev/md1) >>> 3, / (remaining space) (RAID /dev/md2) >> >> So basically you have now included /boot and /swap into the RAID, right? > YES both are raid volumes >> >>> now at the end after installation when system rebooted for the first >>> time i receive "error loading operating system" actually in BIOS boot >>> option i mistakenly selected SATA2 as boot instead of SATA 1. when i >>> shift things back i manage to reach grub menu. >> >> Okay, so now you get to GRUB's menu and then, what happens? Can you >> finally boot your installed system? >> > > Yes. i can work normally as i boot from the grub menu. there is no > problem at all. every thing is quite normal even here is the result of > "cat /proc/mdadm > > Personalities : [raid1] > md2 : active raid1 sda3[0] sdb3[1] > 307588416 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > md1 : active (auto-read-only) raid1 sda2[0] sdb2[1] > 3903680 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1] > 1076224 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > >>> now the part where i am confuse is that i believed that the computer >>> should have booted from SATA2 as well because boot partition is also >>> installed over it too. >> >> (...) >> >> Mmm, IIRC software RAID (mdadm) needs from user intervention (manual >> tweaking) when one of the disks goes offline (or you alter the disk order >> at the BIOS ;-) ), at least for booting. I mean, you had to install GRUB >> in both disks or something like that, I dont't remember the exact steps >> but they should be documented... >> >> Greetings, >> >> -- >> Camaleón >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org >> Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jlk6go$mrm$8...@dough.gmane.org >> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAGWVfMkSmrTwODyw34t1TRWVB56FR81HRibN=ltji3c5afh...@mail.gmail.com