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#7 Re: Software RAID5 and LVM with the Etch Installer Posted by Fakirrr (82.229.xx.xx) on Tue 27 Mar 2007 at 13:17 One thing should be added to this nice article in case this installation is being done on brand new pristine disks. If Grub is being installed on the RAID1 boot sector rather than MBR and you are on x86 or x86_64, the debian installer will probably prompt you about having an MBR installed (as this is required for the BIOS to initially access the disk). At this step you can only pick from one of the physical devices and not the RAID partitions. So the MBR should be manually installed on the other disks as a post installation task to ensure that no disk is being left MBRless and so unusable by the BIOS. This should be true with PATA hardware and is something i went through when performing RAID sanity tests after an etch install (a year ago or so). Most of the time i have no specific requirements for an MBR, so i usually tend to install the bootloader on the MBR and then duplicate it by hand on the other disks.

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