Final objective: Two disks, one old, one new. Need to setup raid-1 without re-installing ubuntu. System is Ubuntu 12.04. Note that I am trying everything in a virtual machine (virtualbox)
What I have done so far in a nutshell:
- Copied partitions from sda to sdb.
- Formatted the sdb1 to Linux raid auto.
- Created raid-array (md1) with sdb1 and one missing drive.
- Created ext4 filesystem for /dev/md1.
- Configured mdadm.
- Mounted /dev/md1 to /mnt/md1 folder.
- Used rsync to copy everything from / (filesystem) to /mnt/md1
Now I must configure grub somehow so that it boots from the degraded array which I have setup above (after reboot I will add sda1 to raid-array)
This is my UNsuccessful attempt so far:
- Edit /etc/fstab to replace UUID with /dev/md1 for the / partition
- Edit /etc/mtab to replace /dev/sda1 with /dev/md1
- Edit /etc/default/grub to set this: GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
- Created a menu entry for grub which is suppose is the main reason while the whole thing failed
Here is what I see during boot after I select my menu entry
error: file not found
error: file not found
Loading Linux 3.2.0-34-generic ...
error: no such disk.
Loading initial ramdisk ...
error: you need to load the kernel first.
Press any key to continue ...
