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: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org