On Tue, May 17, 2022, 2:43 AM Peter Boy <pboy(a)uni-bremen.de> wrote:
> Am 16.05.2022 um 18:26 schrieb Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com>:
>
> On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 1:52 PM Peter Boy <pboy(a)uni-bremen.de> wrote:
>> ...
>> I don’t know if there is a potential problem. Some time ago, if I
remember correctly it was Neil who wrote in a discussion about storage that
a software RAID is no longer possible, because - so my memory - the
biosboot partition is not replicable over multiple disks. So if the
previous boot disk fails, you can't just boot from another disk.
>
> Last time I checked this particular configuration of /boot on multiple
> drives in e.g. a raid1,10,5,6 - on BIOS firmware only, Anaconda issues
> the grub2-install command pointing at all the member drives making up
> /boot. Whether MBR or GPT, the proper GRUB core.img is installed on
> each. So any of them will get you to at least a grub rescue prompt.
Did you test that?
That's what i just described.
If I remember correctly, without the biosboot partition in place, a bios
system doesn’t boot at all from a GPT disk. So you get a black
screen.
Anaconda automatic partitioning always creates the required BIOS Boot
partition. And in Custom, it complains if you don't. So yes, i created them.
The reality on UEFI is degraded boot isn't possible unless you're willing
to setup ill advised janky nonsense. Like using mdadm raid1 n-copies for
n-drives for the ESP.
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Chris Murphy