The gentoo installation docs assume single disk and the grub2 install docs wiki didnt mention installing mdadm first. Apr 29, 2019 the grub2 bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails no matter which one. Jun 02, 2016 hi, have struggled with this for a day, too and found a soultion. Hi im having trouble with grub install on an imsm now called irst raid system on an intel dq77mk motherboard. Installing a fresh version of vyos in vmware esxi for testing purposes w raid1 support ended with an installation that cant boot. Ive heard rumors that grub2 is able to support boot on raid 0, raid 1 or raid 5, metadata 0.
This article describes how to setup a linux system that can boot directly from a software raid 1 device using grub. If you absolutely have to do software raid, id suggest keeping boot out of your encryptedlvm partitions. Install the grub boot loader to the master boot record. There are many howtos available on the internet that describe several different schemes for utilizing linux software raid to provide mirroring of boot, root, and even other partitions. Hi all, it took me some time, but i got back to the point before the doublefree corruption. Raid5 is similar to raid1, but it uses three devices and provides the space of two of them. All partitions should be software raided although with one drive only. Troubleshooting alternatives mdadm an alternative for dmraid is mdadm. Im trying now to install gentoo on a new machine using raid 1 boot and root in a single partition and raid 0 home. However, i havent seen this issue raised in any recent howtos just on old ones. This is the documentation of gnu grub, the grand unified bootloader, a flexible and powerful boot loader program for a wide range of architectures.
So my guess is to create a lvm over multiply disks, then install grub2 over a logical volume. Solved debian software raid 1 and grub issue user name. After having added both disks to the arrays, it was time to update the initrd again. This option is the only choice available if your disk contains no software raid partitions. Jan 25, 2017 i made a raid 1 of two raw disks, devsda and devsdb, not devsdax devsdbx. It looks like the uefi thinktank completely sidestepped the issue of esp redundancy and left it all to the hardware vendors. An ideal answer would link to a tutorial that explains how to move a boot. The size of a raid 1 array block device is the size of the smallest component partition.
Installing grub2 with boot on software raid, wesley pa4wdh, 20703. Instead of using the grub shell, i used grub install to install the boot loader on the hard drives. Installing grub2 with boot on software raid, wesley pa4wdh, 20706. On systems with a separate boot partition, that partition should be mounted to mntboot. The red hat customer portal delivers the knowledge, expertise. In gdisk, set both 256 meg gpt partitions for type fd00 5. Then i installed centos 7 on the raid, with boot, and swap being partitions on the raid. In this tutorial i will show you how to reinstall grub2 bootloader on a ubuntu system with efi partition.
This page contains some screenshots to demonstrate it, and applies to debian 5. Installing grub2 with boot on software raid, wesley pa4wdh, 20705. Installing grub2 on gnulinux software raid sinodun. Now boot off your fake raid and see grub starting your new debian installation. How do i install grub on a raid system installation. In advanced storage the necessary steps are documented on how to install and use grub2 on more advanced storage situations, such as software raid, logical volumes or encrypted file systems. Using configure software raid im creating raid 1 devices on pairs of partitions earlier marked as physical volume for raid. To install grub now on the new hard disk, enter the following commands into the grub shell. However, i cant figure out to do a grub setup on a raid 5 array. Solved cant install grub2 on software raid installation.
Proceed through the installer until you get to filesystem. Installing gentoo with grub2, gpt, luks and software raid. Im working on a personal project and would like to create software raid 1 with grub on rhel 4. Once youre booting into your raid partitions, add the sda14 partitions to the appropriate raids, change the partition types on sda to 0xfd, and remember to clean up the legacy grub installation on sda with grub2install devsda. On debian this is called a reserved bios boot area. Basically, since xenserver 7 is based on centos 7, you should follow the centos 7 raid conversion guide. When the root file system is located on a software raid, an initramfs is necessary for automatic assembly. Id previously set up raid 1 on systems and there was no real issue about boot it could be read on one drive or the other. Grub seems to want to deal with physical disks that have a readable boot on them. Installing grub2 with boot on software raid, wesley pa4wdh, 20702. The grub2 install devsda and grub2 install devsdb should work as expected on a raid 1 array comprised of devsda2 and devsdb2 for boot. There was a previous task t289 mentioning a similar problem but this was a higher layer issue, not grub itself grub replys by. Grub vs grub2 bootloader learn the main difference.
Solved installing grub2 with boot on software raid. This article addresses an approach for setting up of software mdraid raid1 at install time on systems without a true hardware raid controller. I spent hours trying to work out not only how to set up a software raid, but also how to do it on a boot. Now we have to set up the boot loader to boot to the raid drive. The bootloader should be grub2 because the bios is known to have issues with grub legacy. Solved cant install grub2 on software raid my several installs of raid0 utilized grub 2 with no problems.
If it is not in the man pages or the howtos this is the place. Booting from a raid array is very similar to booting from a lvm logical volume aside from raid specific terminology and syntax of raid partitioned volume. If you software fail devsda then the bios will continue to use it to boot the system. Installing grub2 with boot on software raid gentoo forums. Setting up raid on an existing debianubuntu installation. I hope to address those here and provide an endtoend guide for myself and others wishing to do similar activities. The first boot option correctly assembles the root raid set at boot time, and boots successfully. Installing grub2 with boot on software raid, continued.
Its all been running great but the power went out for a minute and when the box came around the raid is gone. There are many howtos available on the internet that describe several different schemes for utilizing linux software raid to provide mirroring of boot, root, and. How to set up software raid 1 on a running system incl. How to install grub2 on gtp with sw raid and lvm ubuntu forums. Any attempt to access the root device from user space will fail as if the raid set does not exist.
Does grub2 really support putting boot on a software raid5 partition. On the other hand, with raid 5, i dont need a separate boot partition and all drives are equal when it comes to booting. Hi, have struggled with this for a day, too and found a soultion. Ive heard rumors that grub2 is able to support boot on raid0, raid1 or raid 5, metadata 0. I would think the correct partition to install grub2 on would be md0, but it fails to install, there. When the bootloaderstep is entered i selected grub2 each time i loaded a new raid install. I do not issue any guarantee that this continue reading how to set up software raid1 on a running lvm system incl. Debian user forums view topic solved cannot make grub2. Software raid for root file system boot using grub 2. Grub2 fails to boot, dumps you out to a rescue prompt just as before. Even if one of the disks in the raid array fails, the system can still boot. I decided to run gentoo as the dom0 os because there is lots of good documentation for it and it has always been my favorite gnulinux distribution. How to set up software raid 1 on a running system incl grub.
Super grub2 disk helps you to boot into most any operating system os even if you cannot boot. For this you will need to know what your kernel version is. When the bootloaderstep is entered i selected grub2 each time i loaded a new raid. Installing gentoo with grub2, gpt, luks and software raid mdraidmdadm so for various reasons i wanted to install gentoo utilizing full disk encryption with luks except for boot ofc, mdraid, gpt and grub2. My problem is that grub2 install absolutely and resolutely refuses to install on devsda or devsdb. In this example, we use virtual machine qemu or kvm. When i perform a software raid 1 or raid 5 installation on a lan server with several hard disks, i wonder if grub already gets installed on each individual mbr, or if i have to do that manually. Software raid5 and lvm with the etch installer posted by elizabethbevilacqua 72.
I have a brand new installation that im trying to install grub2 onto 6 disks, in a linux software raid 5 array. May 30, 20 installing gentoo with grub2, gpt, luks and software raid mdraidmdadm so for various reasons i wanted to install gentoo utilizing full disk encryption with luks except for boot ofc, mdraid, gpt and grub2. The filesystems on the raid devices are ext2 voor devmd0 for boot. How to set up software raid1 on a running lvm system incl. Grub2 configuration debian squeeze this guide explains how to set up software raid1 on a. This is normally boot but should be changed if the grub folder is located elsewhere. Apr 28, 2016 well, i do not know how to do it with mdadm, but grub2 can boot from inside luks that is inside another luks that is inside lvm that is inside etc. Centos 7 install with uefi boot and software raid1. With a pc bios, hd0 is the disk that the bios reads the boot sector from its the disk that contains the boot sector, and hd1 is some other disk you dont always get to choose. I think i will attempt to add that to the grub2 wiki doc, i cant be the only one using raid and running into this issue on a new install. Assuming that devmd127p1 is my raid partition yours could be different devsda2 is my efi boot partition which mounts at boot efi normally yours could be different mnt is an empty folder which exists, functioning as our place to build our directory structure for the new system. Super grub2 disk helps you to boot into most any operating system os even if you cannot boot into it by normal means.
As far as i understand the guide gentoo linux x86 with software raid and lvm2 quick install guide does not use grub2 and i think i do not need lvm2. Gnu grub short for gnu grand unified bootloader, commonly referred to as grub is a boot loader package from the gnu project. Kim uses software raid since it is less expensive than hardware raid, and since it is always available on any ubuntu system with multiple disk devices. In uninstalled every program i installed since the first grub2 install, recompiled grub2 and all its dependencies, and now things seem a bit more the way they should be. In order to boot properly during the raid setup, we will need to create a temporary grub config file. Note that the situation is completely different in grub 1 and grub 2. With the advent of terabyte disk drives, fakeraid is becoming a popular option for entrylevel small business servers to simply mirror 2 1. Instead, you should make a small 1mb partition on each disk and raid them together and set it as a grub boot partition im not sure of the actual name. Does grub2 really support putting boot on a software raid1 partition with 1. Install linux mint 17 to mdadm raid array linux mint forums. Replacing faulted drive on linux software raid mdtools, you already know how to swap a faulty drive with a new one, but what happens if you need to substitute primary disk where your computer makes boot.
Grubs boot sector reads the core image at a fixed location on a disk supported by the bios it doesnt have much choice. Start the f16 rc5 netinstall cd and set the partitions as software raid 6. I want to place boot on usb and boot raid linux boot usb raid grub. In case your next hdd wont boot then simply install grub to another. Following this, there are also no guides on installing the grub bootloader to both gpt partitioned devices afterwards. This gives the appearance of a hardware raid, because the raid configuration is done using a bios setup screen, and the operating system can be booted from the raid. Hi all, im a bit stuck on a new installation where i want to have 2 disks in software raid. I created a boot partition that goes to md0p4, but it wont install there, either. Jun 24, 2005 in many cases hardware raid controllers are either too expensive or simply unavailablef or a particular system. Nov 12, 2014 12 create a new partition 500m for boot and change type to raid 1 at this point one of the bios boot partitions should have appeared in the main list of partitions create a new lvm swap partition to desired size click manage and make it raid1. Is there a way to boot from a software raid 5 array. Installing grub2 with boot on software raid, jordan uggla, 20701. Even sometimes by pressing esc you can also display the menu.
Installing grub2 with boot on software raid, andrey borzenkov, 20701. If you want to see the menu during boot you need to hold down shift key. Install ubuntu with software raid mdadm for the installation, im using the live server installer for ubuntu server 18. Grub2 is dropping to a rescue shell complaining that no such device exist. How to set up software raid1 on a running system incl. The gentoo wiki has information that discusses both grub 1 and grub 2. How to reinstall grub2 efi bootloader on ubuntu published by shyam jos on august 23, 2017 august 23, 2017. Does grub2 support putting boot on a raid5 partition. Xenserver 7 raid1 mdadm after install running system. Linux newbie this linux forum is for members that are new to linux.
I created a raid container with 2 x 1tb discs then a raid 1 volume inside the container with lvm on top of that. From what ive been reading, it looks like linux cant boot from a software raid 5 array. I have a linux software raid5 involving four disks mdadm. Please note that with a software implementation, the raid 1 level is the only option for the boot partition, because bootloaders reading the boot partition do not understand raid, but a raid 1 component partition can be read as a normal partition. This is important to read when dualbooting systems, or when grub2 needs to be configured to boot iso files. Attempt to use those partitions as the boot partition in a raid1 array results. Replace hard disk from software raid experiencing technology. Centos 6 wont bootload grub on software raid devmd0 posted by curtis k in administration, centos 6, quick tips dec, 12 2012 1 comment if youve just installed centos 6 on software raid and it wont boot off devmd0, try the following. With the above command in the grub shell you will see the disks containing the file. Gentoo forums view topic solved installing grub2 with. Whilst the new code handling the raid io still runs in the kernel, devicemapper is generally. After adding a new disk to your raid chain its a good idea to make it bootable as well by installing grub on mbr. Grub is the reference implementation of the free software foundations multiboot specification, which provides a user the choice to boot one of multiple operating systems installed on a computer or select a specific kernel configuration available on a particular. Jul 11, 2010 i have been setting up a two machines with software raid to use as xen virtual environments.
Copy everything thats on the existing drive onto the new one using rsync. I then create the following software raid 1 1 gb ext4 boot 8. Hi all, i recently setup a raid 5 setup with 8 4tb drives with mdadm. Once you have completed your partitioning in the main partition disks page select configure software raid select yes select create new md drive select raid type. In trying to set this up, ive encountered several pitfalls and complexities. Grub and the boot process on biosbased x86 systems. Jul 05, 20 installing grub2 with boot on software raid, wesley pa4wdh, 20701. I want to place boot on usb and boot raid super user. I am running a 14 disk raid 6 on mdadm behind 2 lsi sas2008s in jbod mode no hw raid on debian 7 in bios legacy mode. Booting anaconda from software raid1 device posted on may 5, 20 sometimes you just want to boot anaconda from a software raid device that houses both the stage1 initrd. An ideal answer would link to a tutorial that explains how to move a. Grub 1 doesnt know anything about raid, but can fake reading from a raid1 device by reading one of the disks this requires a 0. Volgroup00, this is the volume group and md1 is the only pv in it.
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