[Bug 290885] Re: SRU: Backport of Boot Degraded RAID functionality from Intrepid to Hardy

[davekempe]

Dustin Kirkland wrote:
> Beyond that, code-wise, perhaps we could emit a warning in the
> grub-install postinst, that detects if /boot is on a RAID, and
> recommend that the user investigate the situation and perhaps run
> grub-install on the device.  Steve mentioned update-notifier, which
> might be interesting on some desktop systems running RAID, but it's
> not present on the server.
>
>   
Is there any way to detect if grub is actually installed on the mbr 
correctly? Like without actually doing it?
I personally get bitten by the 'grub silently fails to install on all 
the drives in a /boot RAID array' from time to time.
Its a pain in the arse as it requires booting from CD to fix it etc.
And as for weird setups, we do have one machine with 10 drives in RAID1 
for /boot.
My preference would be for that even if we have to create a new package 
which is 'boot-my-server-at-all-costs' or something then I would install 
that as well on my machines.
thanks

Dave

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SRU: Backport of Boot Degraded RAID functionality from Intrepid to Hardy
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290885
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