The 21/10/13, Mick wrote: > I'm fast gravitating towards this option ... > > Although with metadata 0.90 I was able to progress with the installation > (after I deselected the swap partitions) the grub-install script wanted to > install in /dev/md127p1 but it failed. I had to override the Ubuntu > installer > since I could only install grub in the /dev/md127 block device.
Which is the one we expect. /dev/md127p1 is the first partition of /dev/md127. > BTW, I'm > still at a loss as to why for Ubuntu the RAID 1 is seen as /dev/md127 and not > /dev/md0 which I created originally with sysrescuecd. Names of RAID devices are built at boot time. It depends on /etc/mdadm.conf which should be part of the initramfs. Otherwise, consider the name random. > Either way, it won't boot again. Now it stays on a blank screen, no error at > all shown. I don't understand why this blank screen. Or do you mean a black screen? > I'll have another go with sysrescueCD to see if I install grub on > /dev/sda and /dev/sdb and if this does not work either, It should work. Linux software RAID is assembled once the kernel is up and running. Before, the system boot as usual on a single disk. Though, I'm not sure how mdadm will handle the disk change behind his back. Once the installed system is bootable, I suggest you to try to reinstall grub. This will be required at some point in time in the future to update it either way. > I'll stop wasting > time > and follow your suggestion of installing on a single disk first, before I > mirror it thereafter. -- Nicolas Sebrecht
