[GLLUG] RAID1 and Debian 7.2.0 installer

[John Winters]

On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 10:24:29 +0000 (GMT), Chris Bell
<chrisbell at chrisbell.org.uk> wrote:
> Hello,
>    I have been trying to install Debian 7.2.0 to a Pentium 4 32-bit box
>    with
> a pair of 3TB discs configured with all RAID1 partitions. I believe that
> GRUB2 can boot from / installed to a RAID1 partition, but I have not
been
> able to make any partition bootable.

I don't have a suitable system to hand to check, but my recollection is
that the GRUB installation peers under the RAID and looks at actual
partitions to find things to boot.  You thus set the boot flag when
creating the partition, not in the RAID dialogue.

You may hit problems with partitions that size.  Have you consider a small
(256M) /boot partition first, then a large LVM partition afterwards, to
hold everything else?

Cheers,
John