yea, no go. It's not gonna go. Something is severely messed up. Whether it be my system or debian based distros. I'll check back in a year see if the bug has been patched. Ty for your time. mint@mint ~ $ sudo apt-get install mdadm Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Recommended packages: default-mta mail-transport-agent The following NEW packages will be installed: mdadm 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 361 kB of archives. After this operation, 1,191 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main mdadm amd64 3.2.5-5ubuntu4 [361 kB] Fetched 361 kB in 0s (382 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package mdadm. (Reading database ... 175257 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../mdadm_3.2.5-5ubuntu4_amd64.deb ... Unpacking mdadm (3.2.5-5ubuntu4) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for doc-base (0.10.5) ... Processing 41 changed doc-base files, 6 added doc-base files... Registering documents with scrollkeeper... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ... Setting up mdadm (3.2.5-5ubuntu4) ... Generating mdadm.conf... done. Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/mdadm-raid ... update-initramfs is disabled since running on read-only media update-grub is /usr/sbin/update-grub /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of `/cow'. * Starting MD monitoring service mdadm --monitor mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS [ OK ] Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ... mint@mint ~ $ sudo mdadm --assemble --scan mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: Container /dev/md/imsm0 has been assembled with 2 drives mdadm: Started /dev/md/Samsung with 2 devices mint@mint ~ $ sudo mkdir /target mint@mint ~ $ sudo bash mint ~ # mount /dev/md126p5 /target mint ~ # cd /target mint target # mount -t proc proc proc/ mint target # mount -t sysfs sys sys/ mint target # mount -o bind /dev dev/ mint target # cp /etc/resolv.conf /target/etc/ mint target # chroot . mint / # sudo apt-get install mdadm sudo: unable to resolve host mint Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done mdadm is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 273 not upgraded. mint / # update-grub Generating grub configuration file ... mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS Warning: Setting GRUB_TIMEOUT to a non-zero value when GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is set is no longer supported. mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-38-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-38-generic mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS Adding boot menu entry for EFI firmware configuration done mint / # sudo apt-get install grub2 sudo: unable to resolve host mint Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: grub-gfxpayload-lists grub-pc grub-pc-bin Suggested packages: desktop-base The following packages will be REMOVED: grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-amd64-signed The following NEW packages will be installed: grub-gfxpayload-lists grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub2 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 2 to remove and 273 not upgraded. Need to get 1,060 kB of archives. After this operation, 328 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main grub-pc-bin amd64 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.3 [882 kB] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main grub-pc amd64 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.3 [173 kB] Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main grub-gfxpayload-lists amd64 0.6 [3,506 B] Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/universe grub2 amd64 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.3 [2,552 B] Fetched 1,060 kB in 1s (627 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... E: Can not write log (Is /dev/pts mounted?) - openpty (2: No such file or directory) (Reading database ... 177511 files and directories currently installed.) Removing grub-efi-amd64-signed (1.34.4+2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.3) ... Removing grub-efi-amd64 (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.3) ... Selecting previously unselected package grub-pc-bin. (Reading database ... 177500 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../grub-pc-bin_2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking grub-pc-bin (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.3) ... Selecting previously unselected package grub-pc. Preparing to unpack .../grub-pc_2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking grub-pc (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.3) ... Selecting previously unselected package grub-gfxpayload-lists. Preparing to unpack .../grub-gfxpayload-lists_0.6_amd64.deb ... Unpacking grub-gfxpayload-lists (0.6) ... Selecting previously unselected package grub2. Preparing to unpack .../grub2_2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking grub2 (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.3) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ... Setting up grub-pc-bin (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.3) ... Setting up grub-pc (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.3) ... Replacing config file /etc/default/grub with new version Installing for i386-pc platform. mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS grub-install.real: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible. grub-install.real: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required for cross-disk install. Installing for i386-pc platform. mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS grub-install.real: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible. grub-install.real: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required for cross-disk install. Installing for i386-pc platform. mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS grub-install.real: error: unable to identify a filesystem in hostdisk//dev/sdb; safety check can't be performed. Installing for i386-pc platform. mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS Installation finished. No error reported. Installing for i386-pc platform. mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS grub-install.real: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible. grub-install.real: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required for cross-disk install. Installing for i386-pc platform. mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS grub-install.real: error: unable to identify a filesystem in hostdisk//dev/sdb; safety check can't be performed. Installing for i386-pc platform. mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS Installation finished. No error reported. Generating grub configuration file ... mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS Warning: Setting GRUB_TIMEOUT to a non-zero value when GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is set is no longer supported. mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-38-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-38-generic mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS Adding boot menu entry for EFI firmware configuration done Setting up grub-gfxpayload-lists (0.6) ... Setting up grub2 (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.3) ... mint / # update-grub Generating grub configuration file ... mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS Warning: Setting GRUB_TIMEOUT to a non-zero value when GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is set is no longer supported. mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-38-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-38-generic mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and 840 mdadm: only give one device per ARRAY line: /dev/md/Samsung and PROS Adding boot menu entry for EFI firmware configuration done mint / #