Re: raid metadata version - grub-pc 1.99-27+deb7u1 (grub2 wheezy)

On 08/16/2013 06:18 AM, Karl Schmidt wrote:
> Back in 2011-sep-29 There was a problem booting from a raid partition
> with raid mdam metadata version 1.2.  There was a workaround - but I'm
> trying to update some documentation for wheezy.
>
> It looks like this has not been dealt with?
>
> At issue is working with modern drives that are now larger than 2TB that
> require a gpt partition.
>
> I think that currently this still is rather messy.
>
> ( Best work around - put your system on a pair of raided SSD using 0.90
> metadata and boot off of these smaller drives - plant your large drive
> at /home Or where ever ).
>
> Does anyone know if this has changed?
>
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I confirm that software RAID 1 with GPT and metadata version 1.2 is 
bootable on :

- Squeeze grub-pc (amd64)
- Wheezy grub-pc(amd64) and grub-efi(amd64).

Best regards
Georgi