Cannot boot from software RAID with 2TB disks

Chan Chung Hang Christopher christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Thu May 13 11:59:51 UTC 2010


Matthias Brennwald wrote:
> On May 13, 2010, at 5:44 AM, ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
> 
>> I have also been tried this configuration except with 2x250GB SATA drives
>> with software RAID1 on Ubuntu 10.04. The installation went fine except that
>> the server is unable to boot. I cannot get GRUB to install correctly. Does
>> anyone have a solution?
>>
>> Nigel
> 
> Thanks for this info. I don't have a solution (yet), but at least we now know the problem is not (only) related to the size of my disks (2TB).
> 

Yours is due to the Debian installer not supporting making a bios_boot 
partition under the GPT scheme of things for embedding grub.

I don't think it would be related to the other chap's problem until he 
tells us what he has on disk.




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