Re: grub2 & mdraid

[Andrey Borzenkov]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Oleg <address@hidden> wrote:
>   Hi, all.
>
> I have the problem with an installing grub on a mdraid device.
>
> I install a new system with a help of my bootable usb flash. I have x86 system
> on the usb flash and want to install a x86_64 system on a hdd. My steps:
>
> 1. Boot from the usb flash (/dev/sda);
> 1.1. Create a raid device on partitions (prepared with fdisk) with:
>
>      mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l1 -n2 --bitmap=internal /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1
> 1.2. Make a raid partition and a fs on it:
>
>      fdisk /dev/md0
>      mkfs.ext4 /dev/md0p1
> 1.3. Install a system:
>
>      mount /dev/md0p1 /mnt
>      debootstrap --arch=amd64 --foreign --include=grub2,mdadm wheezy /mnt 
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian
> 1.4. Install grub:
>
>      grub --modules="part_msdos raid mdraid1x" --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sdb
>      grub --modules="part_msdos raid mdraid1x" --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sdc
>

Upstream does not have this command, you need to ask your
distribution. Also in general grub2 is intelligent enough to figure
out what modules it needs; you need to have very good reasons and
understanding of grub internals to manually specify them.

Try using

grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sdb
grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sdc

if it does not work, full output of

grub-install --debug --boot-directory /mnt/boot /dev/sdb

would be interesting.

> 2. Boot from hdd and get:
>
>    error: no such disk.
>    Entering rescue mode...
>    grub rescue>
>
> 2.1. I do insmod part_msdos, raid, mdraid1x. But when i do insmod normal i 
> get:
>
>      error: no such disk.
>
> Now as a workaround i install a system (x86_64) to a different single disk and
> booted from it i install a system (x86_64) on a mdraid and do grub-install 
> from
> a chroot. And this is work. But this is a strange method.
>
> Can anyone point me to the right section of the
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/index.html
> to resolve my problem?
>
> Thanks.
>
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