Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: >> 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. >
I was using RAID 5 and the installer refused to configure the boot loader. >> 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? > How would I get to Yast, when I couldn't install a bootable system? >> 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. > > As I mentioned above, I was using RAID 5, not RAID 1 and SUSE refused to install a boot loader with /boot on a RAID 5 array. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
