Installing with F20 installer report (and failure)

[lee]

Stephen Morris <samorris at netspace.net.au> writes:

> Hi Lee,
>     Just my 2 cents worth, the dot you are seeing on the top left of
> the screen is displayed just before the grub boot menu is displayed,
> which as the menu is not displayed means that the system can't find
> grub.cfg which is in /boot/grub2. I haven't tried playing around with
> software raid much, which also leads to the question of why raid1
> which is mirroring rather than raid0 which is striping and provides
> more disk space availability, but I digress.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

> I thought that support for software raid was implemented in kernel
> modules, which if correct, the kernel is in /boot, which I thought you
> said was a raid device, hence how does it load the drivers to support
> raid from a raid device before it has the drivers, if you know what I
> mean, which would also explain why it can't load grub.cfg.

Yes, I`ve been thinking that.  Yet:


1: When the system cannot boot when /boot is on a software raid, the
   installer should give you a warning and an explanation.

2: I have had a Debian installation running with /boot on software raid-1
   just fine for years.


As to 2: If the installer created the /boot partition correctly and
unless the md tools changed significantly in the way they deal with
raid-1 partitions, grub is able to read from that partition even though
it might just read from only one of the drives.

Thirdly, what are the mdraid* modules in /boot/grub2/i386-pc/ for?
"Grub 2 supports Linux mdraid volumes natively."[1]  So either there is
a problem in the installer, or grub2 doesn`t support mdraid.


[1]: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/17481/grub2-raid-boot

> I know its a pain, but I would try reinstalling again and configuring
> your devices with /boot as non-raid, and configuring everything else
> as raid.

Well, either someone knows a solution, or I try to fix the problem with
a rescue/life system, or I install something else.  I might give centos
a try because I think I might actually get a server sooner or later
(which is likely to be some proliant --- which would put some sense to
using centos --- despite HP can`t even deliver a replacement battery for
a UPS ... ).  I`d have tried mint, but my USB stick holds only 1GB and
their installer is 1.2GB.  Or perhaps I`ll try gentoo ...


The only reason I tried Fedora is because it`s still on my computer and
the installer fits on my USB stick.  Since, in the context of
Fedora.next, it has been established in this mailing list that
developers of Fedora don`t care at all what users of Fedora think and
the Fedora project nonetheless feels that they shall be positioned to
lead the advancement of OSS, without caring, using Fedora is a pretty
moot point for me:  That they happen to make a good distribution is
obviously a random side effect which can go away any time.

So I`m merely giving some feedback here.  This is one way to contribute
(which will probably be ignored anyway).  A while ago someone here
seemed to be interested in why ppl who are using Linux are not using
Fedora ...


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Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)