Bug#612518: grub-pc: fails to install to RAID1

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 08.02.2011 23:08, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote:
> Package: grub-pc
> Version: 1.99~rc1-2
>
> Hello,
>
> the new 1.99~rc1-2 fails to install to my /dev/md0. 1.98+20100804-14 did
> well.
>
> $ mount | grep /boot 
> /dev/md0 on /boot type ext2 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> $ cat /proc/mdstat 
> ...
> md0 : active raid1 sda2[0] sdb2[1]
>       240832 blocks [3/2] [UU_]
> ...
> # grub-install --force --no-floppy /dev/md0
> /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Attempting to install GRUB to a partitionless disk or to a partition.  This is a BAD idea..
> /usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required when the root device is on a RAID array or LVM volume.
>
>   
It's
grub-install /dev/sda
and
grub-install /dev/sdb

> sda and sdb are GPT disks with sd[ab]1 53.0 KiB 0xEF02 BIOS boot
> partition - just in case it matters.
>
>
> regards
>    Mario
>   
>
>
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-- 
Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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