Re: grub-install fails an RAID1

2011-10-12 Thread Kurt Flex
Tom H writes: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Kurt Flex wrote: >> Currently I guess the real bootloader is not on the raid at all. Maybe >> it's some other device they are hiding from me. (There is also a rescue >> system I can boot, but i can't find it in normal state). > > It sounds like it'

Re: grub-install fails an RAID1

2011-10-12 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > grub2 could use a blocklist (as lilo did), but thats unsafe. You can use blocklists with grub2 by passing "--force" as a "grub-install" argument but I would check first whether it's a VM booted through pvgrub or through whatever mecha

Re: grub-install fails an RAID1

2011-10-12 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 12. Oktober 2011 schrieb Kurt Flex: > Tom H writes: > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Kurt Flex wrote: > >># grub-install /dev/sda > >>/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: This msdos-style partition label has > >> no post-MBR gap; embedding won't be possible!. > >> /usr/sbin/grub-s

Re: grub-install fails an RAID1

2011-10-12 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 12. Oktober 2011 schrieb Darac Marjal: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:58:52PM +0200, Kurt Flex wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've done a safe-upgrade today which upgraded grub: > > upgrade grub-pc 1.98+20100804-14 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 > > > > The same for grub-common. > > > > A dial

Re: grub-install fails an RAID1

2011-10-12 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 12. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ad L.: > Regardless of the possibility to use the space, I ALWAYS leave the > first cylinder of a disk unused (aligning partitions to cylinder > boundaries). I find the idea of using the first cylinder for "optimal" > space usage a bit ridiculous, to be honest.

Re: grub-install fails an RAID1

2011-10-12 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Kurt Flex wrote: > Tom H writes: >> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Kurt Flex wrote: >>> >>>    # grub-install /dev/sda >>>    /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: This msdos-style partition label has no >>> post-MBR gap; embedding won't be possible!. >>>    /usr/sbin/g

Re: grub-install fails an RAID1

2011-10-12 Thread Kurt Flex
Tom H writes: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Kurt Flex wrote: >> >>    # grub-install /dev/sda >>    /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: This msdos-style partition label has no >> post-MBR gap; embedding won't be possible!. >>    /usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: embedding is not possible, but this is >

Re: grub-install fails an RAID1

2011-10-12 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Kurt Flex wrote: > > I've done a safe-upgrade today which upgraded grub: > >    upgrade grub-pc 1.98+20100804-14 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 > > The same for grub-common. > > A dialog appeared which asked me to run grub-install. But that > failed. So i told the dialo

Re: Re: grub-install fails an RAID1

2011-10-12 Thread Ad L.
Regardless of the possibility to use the space, I ALWAYS leave the first cylinder of a disk unused (aligning partitions to cylinder boundaries). I find the idea of using the first cylinder for "optimal" space usage a bit ridiculous, to be honest. With thousands of cylinders on a disk, if not more,

Re: grub-install fails an RAID1

2011-10-12 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:58:52PM +0200, Kurt Flex wrote: > > Hi, > > I've done a safe-upgrade today which upgraded grub: > > upgrade grub-pc 1.98+20100804-14 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 > > The same for grub-common. > > A dialog appeared which asked me to run grub-install. But that > faile