Cannot boot from software RAID with 2TB disks

[Matthias Brennwald]

On May 13, 2010, at 3:56 PM, ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:

> Matthias Brennwald wrote:
>> On May 13, 2010, at 5:44 AM, ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
>> 
>>> I have also been tried this configuration except with 2x250GB SATA drives
>>> with software RAID1 on Ubuntu 10.04. The installation went fine except that
>>> the server is unable to boot. I cannot get GRUB to install correctly. Does
>>> anyone have a solution?
>>> 
>>> Nigel
>> 
>> Thanks for this info. I don't have a solution (yet), but at least we now know the problem is not (only) related to the size of my disks (2TB).
>> 
> 
> Yours is due to the Debian installer not supporting making a bios_boot 
> partition under the GPT scheme of things for embedding grub.

I believe I do not understand this (I am a noob). How can I get around this flaw in the installer? Boot from the Live CD, install parted, and use this to set up my software RAID from the Live CD environment before installing the system? Do I have to make the bios_boot partition there, too? Or what?

Matthias

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