[arch-general] RAID Fails Due To Metadata

[Sven-Hendrik Haase]

 On 24.09.2010 23:23, Carlos Mennens wrote:
> 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?
>
Dunno, I just ignored it and put grub2 on it and it just worked without
the --metadata flag. No tinkering or anything required. In fact, grub2
just worked like magic with default configs.
So: "works for me"

-- Sven-Hendrik