grub is not installed to secondary RAID1 disk
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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grub (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I have two identical drives that I have configured as RAID1. I set up software RAID1 on them and installed Dapper.
After installing, I shut down and pulled the power connector from the secondary disk. I booted up, and all was fine. [I will file another bug report related to this.]
I shut down, and connected power only to the secondary drive. When I powered up, it would not boot. I tried fiddling with IDE cables and BIOS settings. Nothing.
One possibility is that grub was not installed on the secondary drive.
Another possibility is that the installer lied and really only set up one disk on the RAID1 array. I don't know how to tell which.
Either way, this is a massively serious problem, because if the primary drive fails, the user is left with no way to boot the secondary and recover their data.
Note: I installed gkrellm (a system monitoring tool), and I have been able to verify that both drives are indeed being used. So it must be a GRUB problem.