On 27/01/18 00:10, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
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OK, on a whim, I thought, as the machine has raid built in, I'll stop worrying about S/W raid and go the hardware route.
It installed OK, whilst installing it said something like "I can see you're using raid, do you want to load the drivers?" so I said yes. Then I could see that there was an entry in /proc/mdstat (or similar) showing the raid status. Great!
Then I rebooted, and it didn't.
So it's basically (hardware assisted) software raid. Although this time I installed in UEFI mode, I have the same problem. It seems something (grub2) needs a special partition (or two in this case) that is not RAIDed to boot from.
So the options are: Non-raided partition to boot from, rest raided. (Bios or UEFI mode) Extra disk to boot from, non raided. Raid the other. Either way, I have a single point of failure and I have to mitigate it somehow.
Surely there must be a way around this SPOF? Am I missing something??
Any advice/comments please to the usual email address (i.e. ALUG)
Steve