Bug#467501: Bug #467501 cannot boot when /boot is in RAID

[Jonathan McDowell]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 07:15:33PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> >Running grub-install will wipe the grub1 install and leave me with
> >grub2, right? Is that more likely to work than the existing chainloading
> >grub2 from grub1 approach?
> 
> Yes, grub-install will replace grub-legacy with grub2.
> I don't know if that works better then chainloading.
> If you have a rescue CD or such so you can recover grub-legacy to get a 
> bootable system again, then you can try it out.

> >I can try an "aptitude purge; rm /boot/grub/*.{mod,img}; aptitude
> >install grub-pc" tonight and let you know if that's any better.
> 
> I just checked postinst calls grub-install /bin/true if chainloading is used
> But only if there wasn't already a /boot/grub/core.img
> So to be on the safe side, please do that. 

Ok. I bit the bullet, purged, deleted, installed and did a full
grub-install rather than just chainloading. And it all seems to work
fine; root is set to (md0) and the system loads the graphical menu by
default rather than dropping to the rescue shell.

J.

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