Confirming:
# grub-install /dev/md1 grub-setup: warn: Attempting to install GRUB to a partition instead of the MBR. This is a BAD idea. grub-setup: error: Embedding is not possible, but this is required when the root device is on a RAID array or LVM volume.
# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md1 : active raid1 sda1[0] 184640 blocks [2/1] [U_]
The is 7 MB unused space available before sda1. (I am currently booting from sdb2 since booting from md1 is not possible.)
Confirming:
# grub-install /dev/md1
grub-setup: warn: Attempting to install GRUB to a partition instead of the MBR. This is a BAD idea.
grub-setup: error: Embedding is not possible, but this is required when the root device is on a RAID array or LVM volume.
# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1] [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10]
md1 : active raid1 sda1[0]
184640 blocks [2/1] [U_]
The is 7 MB unused space available before sda1. (I am currently booting from sdb2 since booting from md1 is not possible.)