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Re: [opensuse] Suse 10.2 installation on Raid 1
- From: James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:20:47 -0400
- Message-id: <46D4C9EF.8050708@xxxxxxxxxx>
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.
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>> 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.
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