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Problem reinstall GRUB2

I tried to upgrade from 12.04 -> 12.10. The install seemed to go well but upon reboot, I get the grub recovery console. I tried to reinstall using the boot-repair Boot Repair which usually works a ...
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Dual Boot Windows 7 with Ubuntu on Second Hard Disk

System has two hard disks: 160GB SSD, which is the boot disk and 500GB RAID1 HDD. I have Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit installed as the main OS on the SSD. I don't want to touch or modify this drive. ...
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I think I messed up GRUB (RAID installation)

Today I was doing a apt-get dist-upgrade, and a popup showed up, "Do you want to follow without installing grub?" or something like that, and I wrongly pressed YES, So, I have done a apt-get install ...
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Need help installing Ubuntu 18.04 onto a Raid 0 of two disks

First a disclaimer, this is being done on a KVM/Qemu vm before I attempt with a live system. Same setup worked fine with Fedora. When trying to install Ubuntu 18.04 I get the a fatal error. Start ...
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Trouble installing GRUB following xubuntu install on RAID0

I followed instructions in another post that basically said to create the RAID and install after selecting the RAID partitions to which to install. I've done this a number of times but find myself ...
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grub2 can't configure after failed upgrade on raid

I tried to upgrade ubuntu with standard apt-get upgrade and ran into similar problems to what is described here: https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1315016 grub went through a ...
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Installer Only Recognizes 801GB of a 3TB RAID1 Array

I've been searching as best I can for this precise problem, but the only place I found it exactly was here, and I don't think that the OP ever got an adequate answer. Most of the issues I've seen ...
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GRUB Bootloader not loading with Software RAID1 on Fresh 14.04 Server Install

I've looked at all of the forums, and tried doing multiple fresh installs and continue getting the error "Unable to install GRUB in /dev/mdx - This is a fatal error" My current setup is 2 2T drives, ...
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Installation doen't modify HDD

This is very strange, but I can run the Ububtu Server 12.04 64bit from the live CD to permanently install it on the HD, but when I reboot it reverts back to whatever OS was on the HD prior to the ...
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Installing 12.04LTS Server on a Fake RAID10

Scenario Install Ubuntu 12.04LTS Server on a RAID10 with boot on a RAID1. 4 - 2Tb SATA Hard Drives 3 Partitions (/boot, /, and swap) boot (256Mb from each disk) setup in RAID1 /dev/md0 partition is ...
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Unable to install GRUB in dev/sda, two hard drives, Windows 8 on sda

I have a N751JK ASUS notebook with Windows 8.1 pre-installed. I am trying to install Ubuntu 14.04 on my second hard drive, but the installation is failing with this error message: Unable to install ...
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Need help installing on raid 0 [duplicate]

I hope you al are doing fine. I have always wanted to use ubuntu as my main os but has always failed to install it on my fake raid 0. I have been using ubuntu via a virtual machine when it should be ...
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How do I get GRUB to install on a RAID array? [duplicate]

I am trying to build an Ubuntu desktop machine with RAID array, and am having trouble with the installation of GRUB. The 2 10GB HDDs are partitioned using sgdisk (invoked by a script to ensure ...
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Failed to install GRUB2 on a RAID0 SSD [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I install GRUB on a RAID system installation? I installed Ubuntu successfully except the last step. I cannot install GRUB2 on my disk. My disk is a Rai0-SSD. All disks ...
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Ubuntu Server 18.04 software RAID 1 definition

I am unable to find the exact specifications of how the RAID 1 logic is executed in Ubuntu Server 18.04. More precisely, I am interested in setting up a RAID 1 software mirroring using two identical ...
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