Re: grub2/grub-pc install not possible on mdadm

[Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Looking at your original mail again - you are running a raid with
> metadata 1.2, which means your BIOS will not know how to read the disks
> as a raid device.
> You should be able to install grub into the MBR of /dev/sda or /dev/sdb.
> I believe that is possible with 1.2 metadata. 1.1 was totally broken for
> this if I remember correctly.

Correct that's why i've also tried to install it on sda / sdb but then
grub complains about not finding any partition table.

> That said, if your system is EFI based, I suspect you will need to have
> the bios_grub partition on the physical drives so the BIOS can read it.
> It's not going to do much good having it on the raid partition if the
> BIOS isn't able to read those.
The bios is not the problem - grub simply does not want to install it
boot sector to sda / sdb.

It does it fine when using metadata 0.9.

Stefan
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