[arch-general] RAID Fails Due To Metadata

[Carlos Mennens]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Carlos Mennens <carloswill at gmail.com> wrote:
> I noticed today I tried to create a new system using 'Software / Fake
> RAID' on Arch with the 'mdadm' utility. I have not done this for a
> year or so but realized that when I tried now on my new system, it
> failed and then I tried it again and read between the lines...
>
> mdadm: Note: this array has metadata at the start and may not be
> suitable as a boot device. If you plan to store '/boot' on this
> device, please ensure that your boot-loader understands md/v1.x
> metadata, or use --metadata=0.90
>
> So then I created my array as follows:
>
> mdadm --create /dev/md0 --metadata=0.90 --level=1 --raid-devices=2
> /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2
>
> Is there a way to get Grub to read / access the default metadata that
> the 'mdadm' utility uses?

I asked this one month ago... nobody has encountered this or has any info?