Indeed, I have no idea how it got lost, lvm2 disappeared as well so the system then failed to reboot. Busy fixing that with a rescue disk at the moment. All I can assume is they got somehow marked as auto-installed and whatever auto installed them was removed and the cleanup purged them.
Mark. On Sun, 1 Apr 2018 at 14:39 Pascal Hambourg <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 01/04/2018 à 14:37, Mark Syms a écrit : > > Fixed if myself. > > > > Turns out that an earlier package run (some two weeks ago) had removed > > mdadm and I hadn't spotted that. So when grub-install tried to > > interrogate the raid it didn't have any user space tools to do so. > > It is one of the rare causes I found when searching the web for the > error message, although it sounded quite unlikely. Why the hell would > such an essential component as mdadm be uninstalled ? It could have > broken your system boot more surely than GRUB itself. Assembly of 1.x > arrays requires mdadm. > _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
