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Re: grub2 and Linux software RAID devices
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Robert Millan |
Subject: |
Re: grub2 and Linux software RAID devices |
Date: |
Tue, 5 Feb 2008 10:38:50 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 12:44:38AM +0000, Sam Morris wrote:
>
> Ouch... I have never tried /boot on LVM myself (since grub legacy can't
> handle it). However /boot on RAID works fine, I suggest you try that
> instead.
Ah, I see. What remains puzzling is how do other people manage to boot from
/boot on LVM (we had reports about that).
> It's pretty simple, assuming you are using d-i. When partitioning,
> configure two disks with identical partition layouts (a single partition
> on each is sufficient). Then, tell partman that you want to use them as
> 'physical volumes for RAID'. A new option should appear, 'configure
> RAID' (or something similar). Here you can create a RAID1 array using
> both the partitions, which you can use as an ext3 filesystem, mounted
> at /.
Thank you. I'll try this as soon I get a free minute.
> >> Jeroen Dekkers previously suggested a patch to suppress the 'out of
> >> disk' error, at
> >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg02873.html> but no
> >> one ever committed it.
> >
> > Ah, I see. The patch looks correct to me; only the description you
> > gave before isn't.
>
> Hmm, I don't understand the difference between your changelog entry and
> my description, but ok. :)
You said unsetting grub_errno ensured the iteration is not stopped, but
grub_errno has no effect on GRUB iterators, only the return value does.
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Robert Millan
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Re: grub2 and Linux software RAID devices, Robert Millan, 2008/02/07