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On 01/01/2012 12:26 AM, Matthew Gillen wrote: > On 12/31/2011 6:05 PM, Jerry Natowitz wrote: >> I have run into some very strange problems with BIOS disk enumeration. >> Is it possible that the USB drive is being enumerated before the disk >> drive? > > No, the fedora installer really doesn't like /boot on RAID. Must be a > wicked problem, because people have complained loudly for a while now > about this bug. > > The nice thing about software RAID1 is that you can let grub read > /dev/sda1 as if it were a normal partition (instead of a member of the > raid group), since all the raid metadata is at the end of the device. > Then once you boot, you can re-sync (if needed). > Now since I am back about 98%. The fist upgrade I think I inadvertently selected /dev/sda. In any case in then next few cases the installer failed (both on upgrade and fresh install) with a message that the system may not boot. The solution is as you mention. I unraided the /boot partition. Now everything works ok. What I might possibly do is to place a duplicate /boot on /dev/sdb, but that is a low priority. Once I was able to boot, then I was not able to log in on Gnome3, but that was probably the customizations I added, My backup procedure completely backs up /etc, home, and /usr/local. -- Jerry Feldman<gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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