Bug 148242

Summary:	grub's default location is on raid device instead of physical device
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Ales Jagodnik <alesj>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Olaf Dabrunz <odabrunz>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 3
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Hardware:	32bit
OS:	Other
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Description Ales Jagodnik 2006-02-04 18:34:49 UTC

When doing install on software raid, grub default to using for ex. /dev/md0 instead of /dev/hda MBR. As such booting is not possible.

POSSIBLE SOLUTION:
Default grub location should be mbr when doing software raid installation.

Comment 1 Stefan Fent 2006-04-12 09:49:19 UTC

Jack, after talking to mskibbe this morning, this seems to be rather a perl-Bootloader problem, thus assigning to you

Comment 2 Joachim Plack 2006-04-13 16:11:45 UTC

No. the default bl location is selected only by yast2-bootloader.

perl-Bootloader only messes up a grub.conf that is correctly set up for failover. I hate that beast.

Comment 3 Olaf Dabrunz 2006-06-02 14:36:19 UTC

For RAID0 and RAID5, you need a non-RAID (0 or 5) /boot partition. yast2-partitioner enforces this.  Booting from a RAID1 device is dealt with already in Bug #178802.  The installation into MBR is not sufficient without a non-RAID 0 or 5 device where the stage 2 of the bootloader can be installed. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 178802 ***