Bug 148242 - grub's default location is on raid device instead of physical device
Summary: grub's default location is on raid device instead of physical device
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 178802
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Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 3
Hardware: 32bit Other
: P5 - None : Major (vote)
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Assignee: Olaf Dabrunz
QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2006-02-04 18:34 UTC by Ales Jagodnik
Modified: 2006-06-02 14:36 UTC (History)
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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.

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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 ***