On 08/28/2007 11:14 PM, James Knott wrote: > Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > >> On 08/09/2007 10:04 PM, James Knott wrote: >> >> >>> Is /boot on it's own partition, outside of the RAID array? If you are >>> using RAID or LVM, /boot has to have it's own partition. >>> >>> >> Wrong. I think it used to be so (8.0), but I have an md root and home >> similar to the OP with NO separate boot partition. I do think grub has >> to be installed in the MBR though, as was suggested. >> >> >> > I finally got around to trying this. During install, when I create a > logical volume on RAID for /boot, I get the error message: > 'You cannot use the mount point "/boot" for LVM.' > LVM I would agree. A separate /boot where grub can locate its files are required. > If I try without a separate /boot LVM, I get the error message: > 'Warning: With your current setup, your OpenSUSE 10.2 installation will > encounter problems when booting, because you have no "boot" partition > and your "root" partition is an LVM logical volume. This does not work.' > Again, with LVM it makes sense. > So it appears I'm correct. You need a boot partition outside of LVM & > RAID, at least with LVM on RAID. > Correct. > When I create a separate RAID array for /boot, I get the error message: > 'Warning: With your current setup, you OpenSUSE 10.2 installation might > not be directly bootable, because your files below "/boot" are on a > software RAID device. The boot loader setup sometimes fails in this > configuration.' > That is when IIUC you install grub loader to something besides the MBR. If GRUB stage 1 is installed in the MBR, it works fine (though finds its files on one of the disks). It even, since it is a RAID 1, works with a fallback to the second disk in case the first disk failed. > Then, if I click on "Accept", I go back to the "Installation Settings" > screen, where under "Booting", I get the message: > "Because of the partitioning, the bootloader cannot be installed properly." > BTW, did you set, in Yast, System, etc/sysconfig Editor, System, Bootloader, LOADER_LOCATION to mbr? > So, once again, with software RAID, with or without LVM, /boot cannot be > on a RAID array. I'm glad my system does not have artificial intelligence and know what you said. It might decide it cannot work as it is now and cause me problems. I boot from a system with software raid 1 / with /boot on it every day, with 10.2 (though it has worked since at least 9.3). I will say I have had problems with Yast with 10.1 and got used to installing grub manually every time there was a kernel update. 10.2 just works correctly (i.e grub should not be messed with at all with a kernel update). So it does boot with /boot on a software raid 1, WITH the caveat grub stage 1 needs to be installed in the mbr.
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